The White Horse King

<p><strong>The unlikely king who saved England.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 Britain's later glories and triumphs in literature liturgy and liberty.</p><p><em>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!</em> - George Grant author of <em>The Last Crusader</em> and<em> The Blood of the Moon</em></p><p> </p>