"Convincing and gripping … [A] highly satisfying biography … Castor's great coup is in framing this biography within another context… It puts the women back into the story… Castor's book is another important way of returning Joan's 'star' to the realm where it belongs, the human one." - The New York Times Book Review, 'A book that shows vividly what Joan meant to those in her own time, politically and militarily … Fascinating." -The New Yorker, Praise for She-Wolves, "An accomplished and elegant historian." -The New York Times Book Review, Praise for Blood And Roses, "A master of every weapon in the modern historian's arsenal… Castor has made the whole century live again." -The New York Times Book Review