A truthful look at the French saint follows her life from her childhood to her death when she was burned at the stake for witchcraft.

An historical biography of fifteenth-century saint and national heroine of France, Joan of Arc, that relies on the letters and testimony given at her trial.

Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France. By the time she was a teenager, she was leading troops into battle in the name of her country. Though she was captured and executed for her beliefs, Joan of Arc became a Catholic saint and has since captured the world's imagination.

Written in a straight-forward, concise, and at times humorous manner, Nash-Marshall's Joan of Arc acquaints the reader with a historical character who became a legend during her lifetime legend. Joan is presented to us as a brave young girl who received a mission and who courageously used all of her faculties and gifts to accomplish it. Nash Marshall's approach is refreshingly honest. The narrative is centered on Joan, her mission, her work to fulfill it, her betrayal. The author gives us the facts and allows us readers to draw our own conclusions. Lovers of history will find the author's thesis on the connection between the resurgence of France, the betrayal of Joan, and the fall of Byzantium very interesting.

Maid of Heaven is a beautiful epic poem about Saint Joan of Arc. Ben D. Kennedy, the author, has made a name for himself at PoliticalPoet.com for his beautiful and thought provoking poems. In Maid of Heaven, Kennedy is at his very best creating a true classic about one of the greatest people to ever live. The easy flowing verse covers the famous historical moments in the life of Saint Joan in a way that makes the reader feel as if they are with her as she makes history. With great historical accuracy including exact quotes from Saint Joan, Kennedy is able to accomplish concisely though his verse what many long biographies are unable to capture: the essence of who Saint Joan of Arc really was and is.

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.