Summary

Chapter 29: The ambulances continue down the side roads and one gets stuck. Henry orders everyone to help push it free, but two sergeants who had hitched a ride decide to leave instead. Henry tries to order them back to help but they refuse. He takes out his pistol and shoots one, although the other one escapes. Bonello, one of the drivers, takes the pistol and shoots the wounded sergeant twice in the head. They are not able to free the ambulance from the mud, so they leave it behind. The rest of the vehicles get stuck further down the road and the group sets out on foot. Henry gives the two young women some money and tells them to go down towards a nearby village.

Chapter 30: Henry, Bonello, Amyo, and Piani continue to travel on foot to rejoin the retreat. They come to a bridge...