Chapter 10: The Cauldron, by Zeno

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🗓️ 31 March 2020

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Chapter 10: 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,
0:17.3	read by Almari.
0:19.3	Chapter 10
0:21.4	Bridgeman realised that any number of Germans might be hidden behind the concealing
0:24.6	bluff of the embankment.
0:26.6	He sought out Gordon Brown and together they made a complex and close woven fire plan.
0:32.0	His home platoon was down from 53 to 40 men.
0:35.7	Browns was in even worse shape after being caught on the pole's LZ the previous day.
0:40.2	The platoon had the four brands they had started with and another they had picked up on
0:44.2	the previous evening.
0:45.2	They had eight captured German spandows and about 1500 rounds for each nearly half of the
0:50.7	men were armed with stand guns and the riflemen had captured schmysers as alternative weapons.
0:56.0	The piaz were with Blake for the only possible way open for tanks lay beyond his position.
1:02.5	Alam was certain that Tim Jordan was right and that true to form the Germans would exert
1:06.9	immediate pressure tightening their grip and launching probing attacks of company strength
1:11.0	or more.
1:12.4	The Germans would flow into the gap left by fourth brigades they fell back to join the
1:15.8	division and that gap was immediately in front of his platoon.
1:20.2	At 1030 and without warning the Germans opened up with a spandow from high up in the big
1:24.6	house.
1:25.6	They hit two of Maastons men to the right of his Bren group and they laced the house
1:29.2	held by one of Brown's sections.
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