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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Chapter 1: The Cauldron, by Zeno

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 1: The Cauldron, by Zeno


In September, 1944, the British 1st Airborne Division found itself in a fierce battle for the Dutch city of Arnhem. Al Murray reads the story of a single platoon trapped in the smoking ruins of the city. The author, known as Zeno, fought at Arnhem and later wrote this account of the battle while in prison. Although long out of print, The Cauldron remains the best first hand account of the British forces stranded on the north side of the Rhine.


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0:00.0

We have ways of making you talk presents The Cauldron by Xeno, read by Almari.

0:19.1

The Cauldron by Xeno offers note. This is a novel, although the battle are many of the

0:25.2

incidents described in the book are true. All the central characters with the exception

0:29.7

of Tim Jordan are imaginary, and their behaviour reflects only what experiences taught me to

0:34.7

expect of men of the same caliber in similar circumstances. I found it quite impossible

0:40.2

to conceal behind the character Tim Jordan, the identity of Colonel B.A. Boy Wilson,

0:44.7

DSO, MC, who commanded the independent company in the Battle of Arnhem. I have referred

0:50.0

to some commanding officers by their correct names among the Major General R.E. Erkert,

0:54.6

CB DSO of the British First Airborne Division, Major General Sossabowski of the Polish

0:59.7

parachute brigade under General Erkert's command during the Arnhem operation, Brigadier,

1:04.6

now General, Sir Gerald Lathbury, DSO, MBE, now Governor of Gibraltar of the First

1:09.8

Parachute Brigade, Brigadier, now Lieutenant General, Shan Hackett, DSO, MC, MBE of the

1:15.3

Fourth Parachute Brigade, and Brigadier Pip Hicks, DSO, who commanded the Gliderborne

1:20.1

troops of the First Air Landing Brigade. A reference is also made to Lieutenant Colonel

1:24.6

Johnny Frost, DSO, MC, who commanded the Second Parachute Battalion and other elements

1:29.8

of the division round the North end of the road bridge at the height of the battle. And

1:33.6

another, to Major Dickie Londstale, DSO, MC, who commanded the Londstale Force, which

1:39.2

held the final positions from the NATO-Rine up past the Usterbeak Church. But, if any

1:45.1

ex-member of the independent company, all the division seeks to discover the identity

1:49.5

of Sergeant Murray or Corporal McEwan, he will be disappointed. There were no such characters

1:54.8

or their equivalents. There were no headquarter sections in the independent company, and

1:59.5

therefore no headquarter sections, sergeants or corporals. This is essentially a story

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