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Adam Nicolson

Episode 3 of 5

To mark the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, a series of essays about Napoleon Bonaparte. When the writer Adam Nicolson was a teenager he lived with his father who was writing about Napoleon and 1812. What was it like?

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Wed 17 Jun 2015 22:45

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  • Wed 5 Dec 2012 22:45
  • Wed 17 Jun 2015 22:45

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