A Heroine of France: The Story of Joan of Arc

She was seventeen when she heard the voices. A peasant girl from Domremy, with no education and no army, Joan of Arc walked into history and rewrote it. This is her story: not the saint of later legend, but the fierce young woman who believed God had chosen her to save France. Evelyn Everett-Green renders Joan's journey from obscure village to the court of the Dauphin with vivid period texture and genuine emotional power. Watch a young girl convince warriors to follow her. Witness the miracles and the ambiguities, the faith that Sustained her and the political machinations that betrayed her. The Hundred Years' War provides the backdrop, but this is really a portrait of conviction itself, of what happens when someone believes so completely in their calling that the entire world must reckon with them. Everett-Green writes with sympathy but not sentimentality; Joan emerges as both extraordinary and painfully human. For readers who want to understand not just what Joan did, but how she might have felt doing it.