Alexander: God, King, Man
Edmund Richardson
#1726 of 3,809 books · #579 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2026).
A stunningly written new biography of Alexander the Great, based on a series of important new discoveries and the author's own translations of source material from twelve ancient languages
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN-13
- 9781526658197
- Genre
- Topics
- Alexander the GreatAncient Macedonian historyMilitary conquest
Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlistedMajor(2026)
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