Chapter 11: The Cauldron, by Zeno

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🗓️ 1 April 2020

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Chapter 11: 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 tour presents The Cauldron by Zeno, read by Almari.
0:19.5	Chapter 11.
0:21.2	Bridgeman stood on the top of a tower at the western edge of the Alotments, which were
0:25.4	to be the new supply-dropping zone.
0:27.7	Thorpe-Ralarmstrong and Fraser crouched over the Eureka behind a protection of the three-foot
0:31.7	high brick and stone ballastrade.
0:34.0	O'Neill knelt at the top of the spiral staircase.
0:37.9	From where he stood, Alun could see the remainder of Gorman's section in position around
0:41.9	the tower.
0:43.1	Marion had quarter-section lined a wood to the northwest of the Alotments and Blake strabelled
0:47.8	the road with the force made up of the remnants of his own section and Marsden's.
0:52.0	Farther away, on the other side of the Alotments, he could see the men from the RISC recovery
0:56.7	company, waiting in redness to carry out their task of retrieving the supplies and assembling
1:01.5	them at the divisional dump.
1:03.7	He was worried about what might life farther back in the wood beyond the point where Murray's
1:07.5	men lay in the shallow, grave-like slits they had scratched for themselves with their
1:11.5	short entrenching tools.
1:13.6	He checked Eureka and, followed by O'Neill, went down the spiral staircase and along the
1:18.3	western fringe of the Alotments to the edge of the wood.
1:22.1	Fraser appeared over the ballastrade at the officers retreating back.
1:25.4	Armstrong called to him sharply.
1:27.5	Get back here you bloody idiot, your head stuck up there like a target in the shooting
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