BOOK 1 PART 3 CHAPTER 16
The lofty sky
Less than half a mile along the road, the fog clears, and they see the French directly in front of them. Chaos ensures. The men panic. Kutuzov is wounded. Andrei sees their standard fall to the ground and picks it up. “Here it is,” he thinks. The troops rush forward, and Andrei focuses on a struggle at the battery. He does not see how it ends. He is injured and on the ground, looking up at the lofty infinite sky. “How happy I am to have found it at last!”
