The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before.

Acclaimed historian Helen Castor brings us a gripping new life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman - a roaring girl fighting the English, and taking sides in the bloody civil war that tore fifteenth-century France apart.

Here is the extraordinary true story behind the myth of the Maid of Orleans. A peasant girl who hears voices from God. A teenage warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believes women cannot fight. Burned at the stake as a heretic at the age of just nineteen. Five hundred years later, a saint.

Joan and her world are brought vividly to life in this thrilling new account. Helen Castor takes us to the heart of the action, to a tumultuous moment in history when no one - not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants - knows what will happen next.

'A triumph - brings the real Joan and her time to dramatic, moving and brilliant life.' Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets

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