{"product_id":"joan-of-arc-helen-castor-9780571284634","title":"Joan of Arc","description":"Acclaimed historian and broadcaster Helen Castor tells the story of Joan of Arc as you have never read it before.\n'Popular history at its best.' Daily Telegraph\nHelen Castor brings us afresh a gripping 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 a bloody civil war that was tearing fifteenth century France apart.\nHere is a portrait of a 19-year-old peasant who hears voices from God; a teenager transformed into a warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believed women should not fight. And it is also the story behind the myth we all know, a myth which began to take hold at her trial: that of the Maid of Orleans, the saviour of France, a young woman burned at the stake as a heretic, a woman who five hundred years later would be declared a saint.\nJoan and her world are brought vividly to life in this refreshing new take on the medieval world. Helen Castor brings us to the heart of the action, to a woman and a country in turmoil, a world where no-one - not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants - knew what would happen next.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49735608566048,"sku":"9780571284634","price":11.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780571284634.jpg?v=1780767351","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/joan-of-arc-helen-castor-9780571284634","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}