I wonder if anyone else is as excited about this ebook as I am. My knowledge of this great king of early England is weak. I am glad to get this highly-rated ebook to help address that weakness. And I was tickled pink to get it at a 90% markdown (that's from the
digital list price)! Well, maybe not
pink. ha
The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great. By Benjamin R. Merkle. Rated 4.2 stars, from 113 reviews at the present moment at Amazon; rated 4.13, from 163 ratings at GoodReads. Print list price $14.99; digital list price $9.99; Kindle price now
$0.99. Thomas Nelson, publisher. 272 pages.
http://www.amazon.com/White-Horse-Ki...se+king+merkle.
Book Description
The unlikely king who saved England.
Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe.
Then, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and after decades of plotting, praying, and persisting, finally triumphed over the invaders.
Alfred's victory reverberates to this day: He sparked a literary renaissance, restructured Britain's roadways, revised the legal codes, and revived Christian learning and worship. It was Alfred's accomplishments that laid the groundwork for Britian's later glories and triumphs in literature, liturgy, and liberty.
"Ben Merkle tells the sort of mythic adventure story that stirs the imagination and races the heart and all the more so knowing that it is altogether true!" George Grant, author of The Last Crusader
and The Blood of the Moon.