Saint Joan of Arc

First published in 1936, this is a narrative biography of Joan of Arc, the peasant girl from Domremy who claimed heavenly voices, led French forces against the English in the 1420s, saw Charles VII crowned at Reims, and was captured, tried for heresy, and burned at Rouen. Sackville-West follows the campaigns, the court, and the trial record, weighing testimony about the voices and the politics of Burgundian and English captors. The book is a life of one figure in the Hundred Years' War, not a general military history of fifteenth-century France.

Bound in blue cloth with a sword design in silver. Map endleaves. Silver slipcase with Joan's signature in dark blue.