It's 1940, and Britain is at war. Young Chas McGill has the second best collection of war souvenirs in town but desperately wants it to be the best. Amidst the bombs and air raids, Chas and his friends plan their own war effort in their newly built bunker. Friendships are forged and loyalties tested when they steal a machine gun from a shot down German plane and try to take the law into their own hands... A thrilling story, played out against against the real fear of imminent German invasion, The Machine Gunners won the Carnegie Medal and was recently voted one of the 10 most important children's novels of the past 70 years.

ISBN:978-1848423145