Why Alfred Burned the Cakes: A King and His Eleven-hundred-year Afterlife by David Horspool, David Horspool

Why Alfred Burned the Cakes: A King and His Eleven-hundred-year Afterlife

David Horspool, David Horspool

256 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative mysterious slow-paced
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Alfred was the only monarch to be voted a 'great Briton' in a recent BBC poll. David Horspool shows how the Alfred of myth and history are inextricably linked. Alfred's historical achievements combine with the myth to restore a 'popular' Alfred, t...

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