Joan of Arc: Whispers from God

By Richard Bryan Autry

Joan of Arc: Whispers from God
In 1425, a thirteen-year-old farmer's daughter in the village of Domr my hears a voice in her garden. By 1431, she is dead - burned in a marketplace in Rouen at nineteen. In between, she lifted a siege that was about to fall, led an army across hostile country, stood in a cathedral while a king was crowned, and held her convictions intact through months of imprisonment and a rigged trial designed to destroy them.
Joan of arc follows Jehanne of Domr my from her childhood on the fractured border of a France deep into the Hundred Years' War, through her campaigns as the unlikely commander who reversed the momentum of a century of English advance, to her capture, trial, and execution. Drawing directly on the extraordinary documentary record of Joan of Arc's two trials - the condemnation and the rehabilitation - the novel stays close to what is actually known while inhabiting the inner life that the records can only suggest.
At its center is a simple question with no simple answer: what does it take to do an impossible thing? Joan heard something, believed it, and acted on it - against every obstacle of gender, class, education, and institutional power - with a consistency that astonished her allies, frightened her enemies, and has refused to be forgotten for six hundred years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1CPG3KV
• ISBN13: 9798196430442
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"