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A Near-Run Thing

Today’s Bookmonger podcast is with Bernard Cornwell, author of Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles. The book comes just in time for the 200th anniversary of the big battle, and we discuss why Waterloo is such a big deal, whether Napoleon or Wellington was the better general, and why a professional novelist would choose to write a work of nonfiction for the first time in his life.

The podcast is just 10 minutes. Subscribe for free on iTunes.

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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