Volume III, Part 2, Chapters 30-39
Pierre at the Raevsky redoubt — the civilian's bewildered eye on industrial-scale slaughter.
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From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The novel's central battle and longest set-piece, where Pierre wanders the battlefield as a civilian observer and Andrei is mortally wounded, presenting Tolstoy's view that battles are won by moral force, not generalship.
Volume III, Part 2, Chapter 36
Andrei mortally wounded by a shell while standing motionless out of pride.
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