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He has realized how much he owes the children, and he has realized that nobody cares about him back in Germany anyway. Think this is one I read in primary school and picked it up initially based solely on the fact that it is set in the North East of England. In The Machine Gunners, Chas does not have that same endearing quality, even though he has the same single minded focus on getting his machine gun to work.

The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall book review | Yakbooks The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall book review | Yakbooks

The Machine Gunners, published in 1975, was the first novel written by English childrens and Young Adult author, Robert Westall. Finally their war came and they found themselves at Gusap defending an American airstrip against the Japanese.We meet Rudi a German pilot, ousted from his destroyed plane, who encounters Chas and his close gang Clogger and Nicky. Consider how young people lived in the 1940s and how this compares to the lives of young people today. Just Plane Wrong: The 1983 TV adaptation changed the downed German bomber from a Heinkel He 111 to a Junkers Ju 52. And albeit I do know that some reviews for The Machine-Gunners seem to have some issues with Westall's story not being black and white (and that because Rudi is a German soldier he should of course be depicted as monstrous and despicable and not as friendship material), sorry, but what makes The Machine-Gunners such a great story for me is totally and utterly that Robert Westall textually has created with Rudi and the boys hiding him nuanced and wonderful heroes and that the true and horrid villains of The Machine-Gunners are war as an entity in and of itself and also the adults surrounding Chass and his compadres (those ignorant authority figures, including parents, who are willing to believe that anyone German is not only the enemy but also akin to a devil, that Rudi is simply a thing that needs to be destroyed).

The Machine Gunners. 1: The hunt for war - BBC English KS2: The Machine Gunners. 1: The hunt for war - BBC

The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. He won the Smarties Prize in 1989 for Blitzcat and the Guardian Award in 1990 for The Kingdom by the Sea.

In chapter 5, Cem goes into the forest but unfortunately gets caught by fatty hardy,Boddser gets busted/caught by the police. From the outset, one of the most major concerns the authorities have about the missing machine gun is that, in the wrong hands, its bullets can accidentally kill people some way off by going through walls. In many ways the book has aged badly – attitudes towards mental health issues and the role of women have thankfully changed somewhat – but in many others, it is as relevant today as it ever was.

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