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‘He left the world in ruins’: the author who defied the Taliban and burning tyres to tell Alexander the Great’s epic story

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The Guardian‘He left the world in ruins’: the author who defied the Taliban and burning tyres to tell Alexander the Great’s epic story
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He is the most powerful ruler ever – and his first biographer was crucified. What drew Edmund Richardson, winner of the £50,000 Baillie Gifford prize, to his short tumultuous life? He was the most powerful man in the world but he was brought down by one…

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