Chapter 21: The Cauldron, by Zeno

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🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Chapter 21: 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 tall presents The Cauldron by Zeno, read by Almari.
0:19.8	Chapter 21.
0:21.6	Adams Frowned as he watched Bridgeman make his way behind Gorman's houses and up towards
0:25.9	company headquarters.
0:27.8	The platoon commanders movements were erratic and hard to reconcile with what Adams knew
0:31.6	of the safe areas and the danger zones.
0:34.3	He would amble along for a few yards, double sharply for a few paces, and then fall back
0:38.7	into a leisurely walk.
0:40.2	His chin sunk on his breastbone, and then thrown up with his head moving alertly.
0:44.5	His sten-gun hanging limply from his hand, and then in sudden redness across his body.
0:49.6	Twenty yards short of the bushes and shrub, which later the south of the headquarters,
0:53.0	Bridgeman stopped.
0:54.5	He stood as a man might who was looking out to sea from a cliff-top, his mind far out
0:59.6	over the waters.
1:01.4	Adams saw him sway slightly, shake his head, and then dropped to the ground.
1:05.1	He crawled laboriously into the cover of the bushes.
1:08.6	As Bridgeman disappeared, Adams felt the muscles around his throat contract.
1:12.4	He became as frightened, although in a different way as he had been on the first day of the
1:15.8	landing.
1:16.8	He was watching the first sign of disintegration in an idol, the flaking at the edges of
1:22.3	a man he had thought indestructible.
1:24.7	If Bridgeman went, Adams could believe anything, that they would never get out, that the
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