MahabharataBhishma Parva: The book of Bhishma
Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata (the book of bhishma): a summary in plain words, book 6 of 18.
As the armies stand ready, Arjuna loses courage at the sight of his teachers and relatives on the other side, and Krishna, his charioteer, speaks to him: this is the Bhagavad Gita. The war begins. Bhishma commands the Kaurava army for ten days. On the tenth, with Shikhandi in front of Arjuna, Bhishma lays down his weapons, falls and is laid on a bed of arrows, where he waits for the sun to turn north before he dies.
This is book 6 of the eighteen parvas of the Mahabharata. See all eighteen and the characters.
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A retelling in our own words of a story told in many ways across India and Asia. Tellers differ on many episodes. It is not a scholarly translation.