The Cauldron
‘A stirringly painful, true account’ Daily Mail
'A cruel and sizzling war novel’ The Sun
'A book by a hero about heroes. It conveys the smell of battle, the pain of the doomed men as few other books ever have done’ News of the World
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AL MURRAY
'This is a novel, although the battle and many of the incidents described in the book are true.' ZENO
Unless you have experienced war, it is impossible to imagine its grim reality. But The Cauldron does just that - unsparingly, painfully, brilliantly - because it is written by someone who was there.
This is the story of a platoon of British paratroopers dropped sixty miles behind German lines into the bloody maelstrom that Arnhem became…
Zeno is the pseudonym of Gerald Lamarque, born in London in 1920, who served with the Pathfinders of the First Airborne Division in the Second World War, in Africa, the Central Mediterranean and, most notably, at the Battle of Arnhem, the experience of which he memorably describes in The Cauldron. He was the author of three other novels and died in 1978.
