Author: Evelyn Everett-GreenPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040826664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A Heroine of France: The Story of Joan of Arc
Author: Evelyn Everett-GreenPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040826664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
An American Heroine in the French Resistance
Author: Virginia D'Albert-LakePublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823225836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
This account by a woman who fought the Nazis alongside her husband is “an indelible portrait of extraordinary strength of character” (The New Yorker). Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d’Albert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they both joined the Resistance, where Virginia put her life in jeopardy as she sheltered downed airmen and later survived a Nazi prison camp. After the war, she stayed in France with Philippe, and was awarded the Légion d’Honneur and the Medal of Honor. This book includes two rare documents—Virginia’s diary of wartime France until her capture in 1944, and her prison memoir written immediately after the war. Together they offer “an invaluable record of the workings of the French Resistance by one of the very few American women who participated in it” (Providence Journal). “A sharply etched and moving story of love, companionship, commitment, and sacrifice . . . This beautifully edited diary and memoir throw an original light on the French Resistance.” —Robert Gildea, author of Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation, 1940–1945 “At once a stunning self-portrait and dramatic narrative of a valorous young American woman . . . an exciting and gripping story.” —Walter Cronkite
Joan of Arc
Author: Ann TompertPublisher:
ISBN: 9781590780091
Category : Christian women saints
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A picture book biography of French national hero Joan of Arc.
A Heroine of France
Author: Evelyn Everett-GreenPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
"A Heroine of France" by Evelyn Everett-Green. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Who Was the Girl Warrior of France?: Joan of Arc
Author: Sarah Winifred SearlePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593385187
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Discover the story behind Joan of Arc and her journey to triumph in the Hundred Years' War in this captivating graphic novel -- written by Sincerely, Harriet author Sarah Winifred Searle and illustrated by award-winning cartoonist Maria Capelle Frantz. Presenting Who HQ Graphic Novels: an exciting addition to the #1 New York Times best-selling Who Was? series! Follow Joan of Arc on her journey to convince the Dauphin to let her lead the French army in the Battle of Orleans and win the Hundred Years' War. A story of faith, courage, and determination, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the life of the teenage French heroine -- brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page.
Joan of Arc
Author: Nora M. HeimannPublisher: ACC Distribution
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Draws on a huge range of carefully researched images of Joan of Arc, many never seen before, from museum, libraries and archives in France and U.S.
The Virgin Warrior
Author: Larissa Juliet TaylorPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300161298
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
“A fresh and provocative biography of La Pucelle . . . her transformation from a naive girl to a strong-willed, bold, and gifted captain of war.”—Frederic J. Baumgartner, author of France in the Sixteenth Century France’s great heroine and England’s great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc’s contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But her life has been so endlessly cast and recast that we have lost sight of the remarkable girl at the heart of it—a teenaged peasant girl who, after claiming to hear voices, convinced the French king to let her lead a disheartened army into battle. In the process she changed the course of European history. In The Virgin Warrior, Larissa Juliet Taylor paints a vivid portrait of Joan as a self-confident, charismatic and supremely determined figure, whose sheer force of will electrified those around her and struck terror into the hearts of the English soldiers and leaders. The drama of Joan’s life is set against a world where visions and witchcraft were real, where saints could appear to peasants, battles and sieges decided the fate of kingdoms and rigged trials could result in burning at the stake. Yet in her short life, Joan emboldened the French soldiers and villagers with her strength and resolve. A difficult, inflexible leader, she defied her accusers and enemies to the end. From her early years to the myths and fantasies that have swelled since her death, Taylor “goes deep into Joan of Arc’s heart and soul and shows us the maiden, the warrior and the heroine” (Kate Williams, New York Times bestselling author)./
Joan of Arc
Author: Marina WarnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian women saints
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Joan of Arc: Her Story
Author: Regine PernoudPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312227302
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In a distinguished English translation, the bestselling French book now considered the standard biography of Joan published just in time for the upcoming film by Luc Besson.
The Story of Joan of Arc
Author: Andrew LangPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849672530
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Joan of Arc was perhaps the most wonderful person who ever lived in the world. The story of her life is so strange that we could scarcely believe it to be true, if all that happened to her had not been told by people in a court of law, and written down by her deadly enemies, while she was still alive. She was burned to death when she was only nineteen: she was not seventeen when she first led the armies of France to victory, and delivered her country from the English.