
' Some bright kid's got a gun & 2000 rounds of live ammo & that gun's no pea-shooter It'll go through a brick wall at a quarter of a mile' Chas Mc Gill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth & he desperately wants it to be the best When he stumbles across the remains of a German bomber crashed in the woods
- its shiny black machine-gun still intact
- he grabs his chance Soon he's masterminding his own war effort with dangerous & unexpected results The Machine Gunners is Robert Westall's gripping first novel for children set during World War Two & winner of the Carnegie Medal Now with a brilliant cover look celebrating its fortieth anniversary
Includes:: a bonus short story
- ' The Haunting of Chas Mc Gill'
- & an extended biography of the author