SpletThe story is set during the Second World War and deals with a group of children living in the North East of England in a town called Garmouth regularly suffe... SpletWelcome to the Official Website of Robert Westall. Robert Westall was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England in 1929. His first published book The Machine Gunners (1975) which won him the Carnegie Medal is set in World War Two when a group of children living on Tyneside retrieve a machine-gun from a crashed German aircraft. He won the ...
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SpletThe Machine Gunners by Robert Westall This synopsis does not include the end of the book – this story has a powerful ending which we do not wish pupils to discover until they have read it. Please respect our wishes and withhold the ending as far as possible. Set during the Second World War the story follows six children living in the Splet25. apr. 1996 · Set on Tyneside in World War II, this is one of a series offering classic and contempor... *Hitra in zanesljiva dostava, plačilo tudi po povzetju.* havana west palm
"The Machine Gunners" Episode #1.6 (TV Episode …
SpletAudio version of my little travel book 'The Machine Gunners'. “You can’t buy machine guns in England? Wow – I guess you’ve got to work hard to kill someone over there!” – said our taxi driver in this true, short account of two English tourists who forsake a trip to see the Hoover Dam and go and fire machine guns instead. 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, an… SpletThe machine gunners harks back to an innocent time, set during the second world war and a society light years away from the introduction of the internet and the scourge of social … boreham wood fc latest news