The Machine Gunners : New Windmills Series - Robert Westhall

The Machine Gunners

New Windmills Series

By: Robert Westhall

Hardcover | 2 May 1996 | Edition Number 1

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Winner of the Carnegie Medal
Product Description
The popular children's novel set in the Second World War. It is 1940 in Tyneside. There has been an air raid. A German Heinkel bomber has been shot down. Somehow someone has managed to get away with a working machine gun and all its ammunition from the crashed plane. But who? And what will they do with the gun?

The gripping story of Chas McGill and his school friends offers a vivid account of life in The Blitz. Carnegie Medal Winner Age 12+
Industry Reviews
A group of teenage boys (and one tomboy girl) in Tyneside during World War II find a crashed Heinkel bomber in a wood. They capture its pilot, make him show them how to fire its machine gun, then set up their own dugout and help to win the war. This richly humorous, rather violent adventure story won the Carnegie Medal in 1975. (11 yrs +) (Kirkus UK)

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