Chapter 14: The Cauldron, by Zeno

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🗓️ 4 April 2020

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Chapter 14: 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.
0:20.0	Chapter 14.
0:21.7	Bridgeman lay in the rubble to one side of the crossroads in Usterbick, staring up the
0:25.5	road to the west.
0:27.1	This CO joined him.
0:29.1	I'm afraid you can't wait much longer, Alan.
0:31.0	If they haven't come through in another five minutes, you'll have to take up your new
0:34.0	positions without them.
0:35.4	I'll send them onto you as soon as they arrive.
0:37.8	If they haven't joined us in five minutes, they won't be coming, sir.
0:41.6	Jordan said nothing.
0:43.2	He knew Bridgeman was right.
0:45.0	Whatever trouble Blake and his men had run into would either be solved at first light,
0:48.6	or it would not be solved at all.
0:51.0	The bulk of the platoon lay out of sight behind the two officers.
0:54.8	The night spent within the divisional perimeter had given most of them their first night's
0:58.7	rest since they landed.
1:00.8	In front of Bridgeman was a spanned out, and to his right was a Bren group which Gorman
1:04.3	had joined a few minutes earlier.
1:06.1	Jordan knew that Bridgeman had been waiting all night for the section to come through,
1:10.4	and he knew exactly how the platoon commander was feeling.
1:14.3	Bridgeman cocked his head suddenly, listened intently.
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