The War of the Worlds Chapter 11 - At the Window

In which the narrator, returning to his study after a storm, beholds a desolate and fiery landscape marked by the bewildering presence of colossal mechanical shapes moving about the burning commons. A weary soldier, haunted and broken, enters to relate the devastating destruction wrought nearby, weaving a sombre account of human frailty amidst incomprehensible and relentless forces.