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The Essay, Napoleon and Me Episode 3 of 5

Duration:: 15 minutes

First broadcast:: Wednesday 05 December 2012

When the writer Adam Nicolson was a teenager he lived with his father who was writing about Napoleon and 1812. What was it like?

Part of BBC Radio 3's Napoleon Season marking two hundred years since his historic retreat from Moscow.

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