Chapter 15: The Cauldron, by Zeno

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🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Chapter 15: 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.
0:20.2	Chapter 15.
0:22.0	Bridgman Bent cupped his hands under butchershine and hoisted the cotton through the window.
0:28.1	Jake had most of his men in the back rooms of the house, the ones which faced divisional
0:31.9	headquarters to the east and the lower hospital to the south.
0:35.8	He was as worried about the gap below them as Bridgman was.
0:39.3	They'd been mortering hell out at DivHQ.
0:41.9	He looked across the open ground towards the tennis courts and the hotel beyond them.
0:45.8	They must have hit a lot of their own chaps too.
0:47.8	The POWs don't stand much chance in there but they started to dig in now.
0:52.0	How's it going the other way?
0:54.0	Bridgman looked at the German prisoners huddled behind the wire netting which surrounded
0:57.3	the tennis courts.
0:58.3	He supposed he should feel sorry for them but he didn't.
1:01.7	If they were unwounded they shouldn't be prisoners.
1:04.4	He looked back at Blake's cheerful smiling face at his blue eyes, still bright though
1:08.8	the whites were vanged with red, at his broken nose and pugnacious chin with its harvest
1:13.0	stubble of fair hair.
1:15.0	He looked to the right of the window where cobbled and youing crouched behind their
1:18.0	braingun, its muzzle pointing to the left of the hospital at the gap between it and
1:21.7	the trees.
1:22.7	A German patrol got itself shot up by three platoon.
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