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For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833, it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, an ordinary working-class boy from London turned deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist and highly respected scholar.

Aged twenty, Alexander, the wide-eyed boy from the hills of Macedon, inherited a tumbledown kingdom, a pile of debts and an army who answered to nobody. Desperate to hold on to power, he led the army east, into the heart of the vast Persian Empire, and inadvertently began the greatest military campaign in history. For centuries, historians have told his story, yet the legendary figure has remained a mystery. Richardson's own researches have taken him from the catacombs of Egypt to the passes of the Himalayas, enabling him to unveil this compelling new portrait.