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Radio 3,07 Dec 2012,15 mins

SeriesNapoleon and Me

Mark Adkin

The Essay

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Mark Adkin admired Napoleon as a child and later became a soldier. Now he writes military history and describes being a military historian in the footsteps of Napoleon. The last of five essays as part of BBC Radio 3's Napoleon Season marking two hundred years since his historic retreat from Moscow.

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