The Machine Gunners

`Some bright kid`s got a gun and 2000 rounds of live ammo. And that gun`s no peashooter. It`ll go through a brick wall at a quarter of a mile. `

Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth, and 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 and unexpected results...”

...not just the best book so far written for children about the Second World War, but also a metaphor for now. “ - Aidan Chambers, “ Times Literary Supplement” .