Each of the narrators has also made a special effort that his or her voice doesn’t get too high or low in comparison with the other. We can say that a situation like that in Of Honour and Iron is reached in the later part of the story but initially it is all about survival.
No one thinks of fighting against the Martians at the beginning of the story because they fail to comprehend what has happened to them. Then slowly they understand how to destroy big machines thus the war starts. The humans don’t seem to be winning but they show their true courageous selves in the middle and then the war becomes deadly at the climax.