The French city of Orleans is under siege, English soldiers are tearing through the countryside and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. In the quiet of her parent's garden in Domremy, a twelve-year-old peasant girl Jehanne, hears a voice that will change her life-and the course of European history. The take of Joan of Arc, the saint and warrior who believed she had been chosen by God, has captivated our imagination for centuries. But behind the myth is the story of Jehanne the peasant: the girl who escaped a violent father and a forced marriage, who taught herself to ride and fight, and who found the courage and tenacity to convince first one, then two, then 10,000 soldiers to follow her into the astonishing battles that turned the tide of the Hundred Years' War. Paperback ed 2012
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