Major Cotterell at Arnhem by Jennie Gray

Author:Jennie Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752481388
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

We crossed the Rhine using the main bridge for which so many lives had been sacrificed. I could see many marks of the bloody fighting which had taken place as we threaded our way in and out of shell holes and burnt-out German tanks. Smoke was still coming from the ruins of the buildings on the north side of the river.364

Arriving at Bena Sita the following day, he soon noted that some of the officers were already becoming numbed by the anti-climax of being a prisoner.

Some of the officers were already saying that they would leave trying to escape till they arrived at the German prison camp … It is so easy to put off action till to-morrow and all this sort of talk was so reminiscent of my experiences in Italy. I told everybody that I saw their one and only chance of getting away would be before they left Holland.

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