Why Alfred Burned The Cakes
- author
- David Horspool
- Narrator
- Bill Wallis
- Length
- 6 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher
- AudioGO
- Catalogue #
- 9151
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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, the only British king to be called 'great'.