Arnhem: Ten Days in The Cauldron by Iain Ballantyne

Author:Iain Ballantyne [Ballantyne, Iain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Agora Books
Published: 2019-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

Friday

22 September

‘Wounding and death, burning towns and rotting

bodies, the stench, the carnage and horror of war:

all these could become as habitual and acceptable

as commuting on the eight-fifteen.’

— Zeno, The Cauldron1

With German tanks rolling through British positions in the glades and woods, spraying death to left and right, there are also fierce struggles along the streets of Oosterbeek — often house-by-house. There is hand-to-hand combat in small rooms where the dagger, grenade and pistol count for more than the rifle. The tenacity of the British in such circumstances is why the Germans adopt tried-and-tested tactics to flush their enemy out into the open.

Dennis Clay thinks fleeing is the better part of valour when a 60-ton Tiger crashes through the house he is in.

‘The Germans shelled us first, setting it on fire and then moved in to do a demolition job. As the Tiger came in I ended up moving from room to room and house to house, just managing to stay ahead of it. Others were not so lucky.’

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