Chapter 6: The Cauldron, by Zeno

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🗓️ 27 March 2020

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Chapter 6: 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 Zeno, read by Almari.
0:19.3	Chapter 6 Bob Blake awakened under a gentle tugging at his
0:23.6	smock sleeve and looking up in the light of the false dawn, he saw a head hanging suspended
0:27.9	over his own.
0:29.6	He stirred slowly, his cramped muscles wakening more sharply than his mind, and it was the nagging
0:34.4	complaint of his body which brought him to a more general awareness, rather than the
0:38.1	trunkless head was spring incomprehensible words above him.
0:42.3	He eased his shoulders away from the clay and sat up.
0:45.7	The movement unblocked his sleep-plugged ears, and the thrice-mouthed stand too, registered
0:51.0	as the head disappeared and built-ings slid away to the next section.
0:55.9	He went got cautiously to his feet and looked out from his slit-trendch, first of the two
1:00.1	men manning the bread and then to wear corporal-hybling shoulders showed, hunched and still.
1:06.0	Apart from the one he was in, there were five more slit-trendch's in the section position,
1:10.6	three of them facing the north and two the open ground to the west.
1:14.3	The last two served as his link with Lieutenant Ramson's platoon.
1:18.8	He started to crawl over to hybling, and at the sound of his movement the corporal swung
1:23.0	round, his sten half-raised.
1:25.8	Like called his name softly, realizing that a building had got to him and awakened
1:29.9	him without hybling or the two centuries being aware that he had come and gone again.
1:34.7	Who's on stag?
1:36.4	Jennings and you-ing.
1:38.1	Change them with the regular Bren group.
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