A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here.

Bernard Cornwell
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A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was singing here. The plangent music of this battlefield is the sound of men dying. Men dying because they have been betrayed by those who should have been their comrades in arms.

It is the sound of men dying because they have been betrayed by those they trusted most. In this war, men die for reasons that are as complex as the human condition itself.

Source: Sharpes Triumph

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