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Chapter 20: 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 20 As Blake moved in a stumbling run across the |
0:23.5 | open gardens towards the houses held by Gorman, facing west to Arnhem, he was conscious |
0:27.9 | that his thoughts were as uncordenated as his limbs, and he wondered vaguely whether |
0:32.1 | it was the bend's dream or simply tarnished which made his mind dart from matters of importance |
0:36.1 | to trivialities. |
0:38.0 | The back of his neck felt cold and damp, devoid of feeling, and necessitated. |
0:42.9 | He felt it must stand out like a bull's-eye on his body, a target for the Germans, he |
0:47.1 | was convinced and infiltrated into one of the houses between his own, and those held by |
0:51.4 | the remnants of three platoon, who had fallen back into them after being burned out of their |
0:55.4 | new position soon after dawn. |
0:58.2 | He closed his eyes for a second as he lumbered forward. |
1:01.0 | Tripping on a briar, he opened them again and forced himself to run faster. |
1:05.6 | Sluggish ripples of panic rolled out from the area of his stomach, so tangible that he |
1:10.0 | felt them ease between his clothing and his skin like paper knives opening envelopes. |
1:15.0 | He mumble to Ziran. |
1:16.8 | If they were going to shoot for Christ's sake let them shoot quickly. |
1:20.0 | He almost wanted them to, to get the whole bloody useless mess over and done with. |
1:24.3 | He didn't even know what it was about anymore, and he was beginning not to care. |
1:29.4 | He blundered awkwardly through a rickety gate, bruising himself on a post. |
1:33.2 | He was cursed as he went through the back door of a house and the curses were interspersed |
1:36.6 | with low sobs of exhaustion. |
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