Description
About the Author
David Horspool read Ancient and Modern History at Oxford. He is an editor, with a prime responsibility for history, at the Times Literary Supplement. He is also the author of The English Rebel ('Full of wit and scholarship' Peter Ackroyd, The Times; 'Highly impressive' Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph) and is currently writing a new biography of Richard III for Bloomsbury. He lives in London.
Reviews
Crucial reading' * THE GUARDIAN *
Entertaining, pithy and thought-provoking' -- HELEN CASTOR
Deftly dismantles the image of Alfred' * THE SUNDAY TIMES *
Horspool's scholarship and knowledge of the period create a digestible overview' * THE OBSERVER *
Horspool goes back to the original sources and reinterprets them... The result is Alfred's presentation less as a stock figure of the heritage industry than as an altogether more ambiguous and interesting character.' * THE TIMES *
Highly impressive' -- NOEL MALCOLM * THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
Book Information
ISBN 9781445639369
Author David Horspool
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Amberley Publishing
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Weight(grams) 270g