The Machine Gunners
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At some point something reminded me of The Machine Gunners, a book I read when I was about 10 and - if my failing memory is to be trusted - thoroughly enjoyed. A surprise will come their way which will create an interesting dilemma for the secrecy and integrity of their hidden gun emplacement. Will tragedy, glory or something in between visit these intrepid youths. A fully operational German machine gun in the hands of 6 school children, what could go wrong? Just Plane Wrong: The 1983 TV adaptation changed the downed German bomber from a Heinkel He 111 to a Junkers Ju 52. Shame that the Ju 52 was only used as a bomber during the 1939 invasion of Poland and was being exclusively used as a transport plane by 1941. Angels and Heroes The Story of a Machine Gunner with the Royal Irish Fusiliers August 1914 to April 1915 Boddser brown follows Chas to the fortress; but Chas knows he's being followed and takes a detour. When Chas tries to outrun him, he ends up being cornered next to the sea, and soon Boddser is dunking Chas's head in the water, half drowning him in hope for answers. This goes on for half an hour, Chas receiving beatings then thrusted under the water once more.
English KS2: The Machine Gunners - BBC Teach English KS2: The Machine Gunners - BBC Teach
urn:lcp:machinegunners00west_2:epub:275f6d8f-4e32-4591-8f33-987290a59c9c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier machinegunners00west_2 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1gj25n5p Invoice 11 Isbn 9780140309737 No wonder Chas feels insecure: Ever since he was little, Dad had meant safety: large, solid, bristly-faced, smelling of tobacco. His thumb always grew in three segments, where he had hit it with a hammer while he was an apprentice. But could any grown-up keep you safe now? They couldn't stop the German bombers. They hadn't saved Poland, or Norway or France. Or the battleship the German submarine torpedoed in Scapa Flow itself. Their own air-raid shelter at home - it wasn't as safe as the Fortress. It was only covered with a foot of soil. Couldn't Dad have done better than that? He looked at his father, and saw a weary, helpless middle-aged man. Dad wasn't any kind of God any moreRobert Westall was born in Northumberland and went to school in Tynemouth. He studied fine art at Durham University and after he graduated he worked as an art teacher. Despite having two degrees in Fine Art, and majoring in Sculpture, Robert Westall spent his working life teaching art in secondary schools, and writing only in his spare time. He loved teaching and worked in Birmingham, Yorkshire and Cheshire as a head of department. 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. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2014-06-10 22:38:34.622105 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1611111 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Donor
English KS2: The Machine Gunners - BBC Teach
Well, I must admit that when I encountered Robert Westall's Carnegie Medal winning WWII themed late middle grade to early young adult 1975 novel The Machine-Gunners at our school library in 1980 (when I was the intended audience, for yes, in 1980, at the age of fourteen, I definitely was that), the WWII premise of The Machine-Gunners and that as a recent German immigrant to Canada I was constantly being bullied and called a Nazi, this all turned me off so utterly and so lastingly that I basically never bothered to sign The Machine-Gunners out of the library, even though my English teacher had warmly recommended the novel and had even tried to assure me that Westall's story absolutely and totally did not fit into the all German are Nazis category. But stubborn I obviously did not believe my teacher at the age of fourteen, and yes, in retrospect, very much and very much unfortunately so, since indeed, Robert Westall's text for The Machine-Gunners is totally NOT AT ALL showing Germans and in particular the German pilot that Chass and his friends discover and befriend as negatives, as textual monsters, but that indeed Rudi is not only likeable but also someone very much a kindred spirit to and for the children. Explore how schooling and education has changed since World War Two, including the use of corporal punishment.Friend or Foe?: The Home Guard averts this trope with the Polish force after realizing that there was no enemy invasion and that the Poles were merely acting on their own to the rumors. This is later played straight when the Poles, having failed to find any Germans, aid the police in searching for the children, who assume they are German by their language and fire upon them, causing both sides to believe they are German invaders. The novel begins the morning after an air-raid. Before school starts, Chas (Charles) McGill, 14, goes off to collect souvenirs, things like bits of shrapnel or incendiary bomb fins from the raid. Chas has the second best collection in school, so when he stumbles upon the engines of a German plane, he thinks he has hit pay dirt, until he discovers that one has been claimed by a boy and the other engine is being guarded by the Constable Fatty Hardy, who starts chasing him. The Machine-Gunners was dramatised as a BBC television serial in 1983, with scripts written by William Corlett. [4] It was further adapted as a ten-episode drama for BBC Radio 4 by the writer Ivan Jones in 2002.
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My grandfather prompted me to read this book when I was about 11 and I thought that it was absolutely brilliant. On all the times I've read it since, it has lost none of it's original lustre and, if possible, has got even better now that I understand everything better. Westall won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject, [2] and Machine Gunners was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works for the 70th anniversary celebration in 2007, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. [3] Plot summary [ edit ] This is a very powerful and atmospheric book, which will leave you with a lot to think about afterwards. Robert Westall has written many books. If you like this story set in the Second World War you might like to look at this one by him:We also have a lot of "Nazi pig"ery going on, which while probably historically accurate does rather jar with modern sensibilities. LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. chas is my favorite character because he is outgoing and he has a gun collection the second best in his school. Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL22457304M Openlibrary_edition Like much of Westall's work, this book is set in WW2 England, where boys' idea of fun is to collect assorted debris from the carnage of the Blitz (bits of planes and bombs, with the nose-cone of a Messerschmitt the ultimate prize). But when some boys find something rather larger, and more dangerous, they decide that they can play a real role in the war effort.
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