But, at the same time, you would have to admit it made an impact, left a mark, spoke to the young me in ways I probably couldn't quite understand. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2014-06-10 22:38:34.622105 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1611111 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Donor A surprise will come their way which will create an interesting dilemma for the secrecy and integrity of their hidden gun emplacement. Will tragedy, glory or something in between visit these intrepid youths. A fully operational German machine gun in the hands of 6 school children, what could go wrong? The adventures start in Garmouth, a town in England, when Chas finds a machine gun from a dead German bomber. The story is excitingly fast and fun, but more than that, it can teach you a lot.

Just Plane Wrong: The 1983 TV adaptation changed the downed German bomber from a Heinkel He 111 to a Junkers Ju 52. Shame that the Ju 52 was only used as a bomber during the 1939 invasion of Poland and was being exclusively used as a transport plane by 1941. It Works Better with Bullets: After surrendering to what he thinks is a group of soldiers armed with a machine gun, Rudi is annoyed to find it's a bunch of kids whose machine gun doesn't work. So far in this book it has been rather interesting, and it makes me want to read more. It has been the first novel that has contained World War II. Has it is also set in the town Garmouth which is in England. In chapter 1 it started in the morning after an air-raid had been. Before school starts, Chas McGill, goes off to collect war souvenirs.

The Machine Gunners is a children's historical novel by Robert Westall, published by Macmillan in 1975. Set in northeastern England shortly after the Battle of Britain (February 1941), it features children who find a crashed German aircraft with a machine gun and ammunition; they build a fortress and capture and imprison a German gunner. The author also wrote a play based on the book, and others have adapted it for television and radio. A sequel, Fathom Five, set two years later, was published in 1979. The story is good. It moves along at a brisk pace and has plenty of action to keep the reader engaged. This action comes at some expense to the realism but that tacit bargain is understood. Westall is more interested in telling a good yarn than delivering a true-to-live account of the German blitz raids on England.

Gun Stripping: At one point the children strip the gun down, and then realise they don't know how to reassemble it. Friend or Foe?: The Home Guard averts this trope with the Polish force after realizing that there was no enemy invasion and that the Poles were merely acting on their own to the rumors. This is later played straight when the Poles, having failed to find any Germans, aid the police in searching for the children, who assume they are German by their language and fire upon them, causing both sides to believe they are German invaders.After school, Chas and his friends “Cem” (short for Cemetery, his dad is the local undertaker) Jones and Audrey Parton return to the wood to retrieve the machine gun. Taking turns sawing it off, they finally free the gun and sneak it out of the wood up the leg of Cem’s Guy Fawkes effigy.* They get caught in an air-raid by Chas’ father, who takes the Guy and puts it in his greenhouse for safe keeping. The next morning Chas hides the machine gun in an old drain pipe. A few days later, Cem tells Chas he had returned to the plane and found four thousand rounds of ammunition clips for the gun. In chapter 5, Cem goes into the forest but unfortunately gets caught by fatty hardy,Boddser gets busted/caught by the police. Then the police go to chas's house, asking him if he had any war souvenirs. The most surprising thing that I have learned in this novel is what they used in World War II specially the Heinkell HE-111, I hope there will be more interesting weapons and things that they used. urn:oclc:694210308 Republisher_date 20140613161500 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20140610224805 Scanner scribe1.sanfrancisco.archive.org Scanningcenter sanfrancisco Worldcat (source edition) chas is my favorite character because he is outgoing and he has a gun collection the second best in his school.