This book about the great French warrior— the peasant girl Jeanne d’Arc—was written by Mark Twain. The very American writer whose books about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are read by the whole world.
Jeanne’s life was a miracle.
When the English army had already taken almost all of France, an illiterate girl appeared before her exhausted king and raised a banner that turned out to be the banner of victory. She dealt a deadly blow to the British army and became the liberator of France. Base betrayal sent the maiden-warrior to the stake—but the memory of Saint Joan lives on for five centuries already.