Author: Alex Rutherford (pen name for a husband wife duo)
ISBN 978-0-7553-5654-6
In his series “Empire of the Moghul”, the author: Alex Rutherford, as always relies on historical facts and deftly weaves them into a fictional biographical story that encompasses the mightiest and longest dynastical rulers of India, the Moghuls.
The book: Raiders from the North encompasses the founder of the Mughal dynasty in India, Babur.
It starts in the plains of Mongolia in the mountains of Ferghana, a small mountain town where Babur, a young lad is crowned the king.
This book is interesting in the fact that though all of India knows Babur as the mighty Moghul King and conqueror, this book covers in detail the multiple attempts and failures of Babur to capture and reign over the kingdoms of Afghanistan, the plains of Hindu khush and India itself.
It shows all the trials and tribulations of a mighty conqueror, and in fact highlights the stuff that kings are made of.
The story is very deftly a weave of history and fiction from the plains of Mongolia to Persia to Afghanistan and India.
A must read for adventure lovers and history buffs.
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