It was the ninety-first year of the Hundred Years' War. Jeanne was seventeen. The French people suffered immensely, and the country was threatened with disaster. It was then that Jeanne came... The book of the historian A.P. Levandovsky tells about the life, feat, and tragic fate of the Maid of Orleans. It contains neither characters invented by the author, nor situations created by the creative imagination, nor invented dialogues; all facts are taken from reliable sources. And yet, this is the most vivid, emotional, exciting story about a simple girl, an illiterate peasant woman, who managed to do something that turned out to be beyond the capabilities of even experienced, battle-hardened military leaders. Jeanne spent only a year in campaigns and battles, and then - betrayed, sold, deceived - she spent another whole year fighting another enemy - the harsh and ruthless Inquisition. At the age of nineteen, she ascended the fire - and into immortality.