A children's novel set in the Second World War. It is 1940 in Tyneside. A German Heinkel bomber has been shot down. Someone has managed to get away with a machine gun and its ammunition from the crashed plane. But who? And what will they do with the gun? The story of Chas McGill and his school friends offers an account of life in the Blitz.
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A children's novel set in the Second World War. It is 1940 in Tyneside. A German Heinkel bomber has been shot down. Someone has managed to get away with a machine gun and its ammunition from the crashed plane. But who? And what will they do with the gun? The story of Chas McGill and his school friends offers an account of life in the Blitz.
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The Second World War. A terrifying grown-up nightmare in which children can be killed but have no right to fight back. Then fourteen-year-old Chas McGill stumbles on his biggest German souvenir yet. A machine gun.
Brilliantly outwitting police, parents and the army, Chas and his friends steal the gun. Then they build it a fortress. They have become the machine gunners. But with the gun comes danger.
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 cr
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