A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Reimagines the life of Joan of Arc against the backdrop of the Hundred Years' War and traces her violence-marked childhood and fateful effort to save her country.
This is a biography of the young French woman who, inspired by visions from God, led the French army against English invaders, was burned at the stake as a heretic, and eventually was declared a saint.