A brief guide to dictator lit

When not tyrannising their people, it seems despots such as Colonel Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein like to turn their hand to writing books Colonel Gaddafi is a man of eccentricities. There is his bodyguard of “revolutionary nuns”, the heavily armed young women who follow him at all times. There are his flamboyant interviews and dotty gestures, such as last month’s announcement that all Libya’s soldiers and policemen had been simultaneously promoted. Then there are his stories. Yes, when he is not massacring rebels or inspecting women’s uniforms, Gaddafi is a

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