The Debacle

Part I, Chapter I: In Camp—a Great Disaster

Part I, Chapter II: The Panic—from Belfort to Rheims

Part I, Chapter III: Tales of Two Battles—the Emperor

Part I, Chapter IV: On the March—the Spy

Part I, Chapter V: In Battle Array—the Night of the Crime

Part I, Chapter VI: An Army's Calvary—Chased by the Foe

Part I, Chapter VII: In View of Sedan—Silvine's Story

Part I, Chapter VIII: Sedan at Last! The Eve of Battle

Part II, Chapter I: The Attack on Bazeilles—the Emperor Under Fire

Part II, Chapter II: Maurice Receives the Baptism of Fire

Part II, Chapter III: Inside Sedan: Napoleon's Midnight Agony—Two Women

Part II, Chapter IV: A Woman's Heroism—the Horrors of Bazeilles

Part II, Chapter V: The Struggle for the Calvary—the Great Charge

Part II, Chapter VI: The White Flag—the Horrors of an Ambulance

Part II, Chapter VII: Through the Rout—the Fight at the Hermitage

Part II, Chapter VIII: Truce and Surrender

Part III, Chapter I: Silvine's Quest—Among the Slain

Part III, Chapter II: The Horrors of Captivity—Starvation, Murder, and Disease

Part III, Chapter III: The Slave-Drivers—a Bid for Freedom

Part III, Chapter IV: Dark Days—Bazaine the Traitor—the Tide of War

Part III, Chapter V: Goliath the Spy—an Awful Vengeance

Part III, Chapter VI: The Conqueror's Sway—Giddy Gilberte

Part III, Chapter VII: Inside Paris: Siege and Commune—the Barricades

Part III, Chapter VIII: The Burning of Babylon—the Bitter End