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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Chapter 2: 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 2: 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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We have ways of making you talk presents The Cauldron by Zeno, read by Almari.

0:19.5

Chapter 2 The impact of the slipstream forced

0:22.9

Bridgman's eyelids together, but he opened them again at once for no better reason than

0:27.0

that almost everyone admitted keeping them closed until their shoots opened. It was a vanity

0:31.7

he was ashamed of, but it was part of his character. The canopy cracked open above his

0:37.0

head, and he reached up for the lift-webs to check the oscillation of his swinging body.

0:41.5

As he steadied, he looked about him. He was facing the north and could see the remainder

0:45.6

of his sticks stretching out in an ascending line in front of him. Looking up their line,

0:50.6

he saw the last two figures, quit the aircraft very close together. A way to the east through

0:55.8

the remaining two sticks were dropping parallel with his own, and only one or two hundred

0:59.6

yards away. He had time to glimpse the wood on his left before the crack of single rifle

1:04.7

shots attracted his attention, but before he could pinpoint the direction from which they

1:09.0

came, the ground rushed up to meet him. He tried for a stand-up landing, but the final

1:14.8

oscillation and the weight of his equipment proved too much for him, and he rolled over

1:18.4

in the dry sandy earth. He had twisted and struck the release-box, which held his harness

1:22.8

together before he finished rolling, and within seconds he was on his feet, his sten

1:27.3

gun in his hands and the magazine fitted, although he could not remember fitting it. The

1:32.0

New Zealand navigator had kept his word, the south-east corner of the wood lay under

1:36.7

25 yards from where he stood. The fallen shoots and the running figures of his men seemed

1:42.3

to fill the great open field of the landing zone. It seemed too much to expect that in

1:46.5

only half an hour from now he was to guide in nearly two hundred gliders, some of them

1:51.2

bigger than the biggest aircraft of fifteen second intervals. He stood quietly watching

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