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Title	:	The Machine-Gunners (Chas McGill #1)
Author	:	Robert Westall
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 185 pages
Published	:	October 12th 1995 by Macmillan Children's Books (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Childrens. War. Young Adult

The Machine-Gunners (Chas McGill #1) Paperback | Pages: 185 pages

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Is your enemy clearly defined?

Is your world conveniently black and white, and you are one of the good guys, fighting the evil of an official state enemy, whose citizens are devils by definition?

For some Northern English school children during the Second World War, this worldview is deeply shaken when they make the acquaintance of a German soldier who survived after his plane crashed. They have to redefine their grasp of good and evil several times while they hide the enemy from the adult world that dictates the rules they live by.

What happens when you get to know the devil you fear?

A great novel for our times, to reflect on why building walls between people is the worst way possible to protect us from violence and hatred. Building bridges is the path to humanity.

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Original Title:	The Machine Gunners
ISBN:	033033428X (ISBN13: 9780330334280)
Series:	Chas McGill #1
Setting:	Garmouth,1941(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Nominee for Fiction (1977), Carnegie Medal (1975)

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Ratings: 3.92 From 1989 Users | 154 Reviews

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Is your enemy clearly defined? Is your world conveniently black and white, and you are one of the good guys, fighting the evil of an official state enemy, whose citizens are devils by definition?For some Northern English school children during the Second World War, this worldview is deeply shaken when they make the acquaintance of a German soldier who survived after his plane crashed. They have to redefine their grasp of good and evil several times while they hide the enemy from the adult world

First published in 1975, I read this in the late seventies, aged 9 or 10. I've since read it twice more as an adult and am always gripped by the excitement, the suspense, the build-up and the action. As an adult I can see new aspects to the book, tales of friendship and evolving relationships, heartwarming and heartwrenching at the same time. Contrary to other reviews, this book is not set in London, but in the north east of England, north of Newcastle - honestly, this is an important point, as

Westall's The Machine Gunners is an intense, powerful and brilliant piece of writing for readers young and old. Like a more hopeful Lord of the Flies, a group of children abandoned by society in the chaos of the blitz discover a machine gun at the crash site of a German war plane and use it to set up their own secret base and plan to defend England. A German pilot who survives a crash stumbles upon their base, changing the dynamic in the group, and his desire to escape coincides with a false

A great insight into what war is like for kids. Surprisingly, the whole premise was inspired by a news story about some Dutch kids who did much the same as the kids in this book.

This book takes place in Garmouth England, during WWII. The main characters are children, including Chas, Cem, Clogger, Nicky, and Audry. In the book, Chas finds a jet-black German plane, with a perfectly intact machine gun on top. He decides he will use it to help with a raid in a couple of weeks. He and his friends get ready for the raid when a German pilot stumbles into their secret base. Can he use both the machine gun and the German pilot to his advantage? I thought the book was really good

Interesting, enthralling storyNice to hear of the fun times these kids had even during these violent times. My boys and I enjoyed reading it and hearing of their adventures.