{"product_id":"9780571284634","title":"Joan of Arc","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Castor, Helen \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFrance\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 May 2015 by Faber \u0026amp; Faber in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 129 x 23 | 302g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed historian and broadcaster Helen Castor tells the story of Joan of Arc as you have never read it before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Popular history at its best.' Daily TelegraphHelen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55490636317058,"sku":"9780571284634","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9780571284634.jpg?v=1753731338","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.live\/products\/9780571284634","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}