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.
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 * This impressive novel, written by a man who fought there with the 4th Parachute Brigade, is a memorial of which his comrades would be proud * DAILY MAIL * A cruel and sizzling war novel * THE SUN *