Les Misérables Volume II Book 1 Chapter 13 - The Catastrophe

In which the grand spectacle of war dissolves into a harrowing chaos, as brave souls become swept away by a tide of fear and disorder, quivering beneath the sombre shadow of destiny’s inexorable hand. The shattered remnants of an empire’s might stagger and flee amid the desolation of the battlefield, while a lone figure, heavy with the weight of fallen hope, pursues a course both lonely and fated.