The Machine Gunners
by Ali Taylor from Robert Westall

The Machine Gunners Book Cover
The Machine Gunners Cover

Synopsis

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, in the adventure of a lifetime

Robert Westall's The Machine Gunners has been read, studied - and loved - by successive generations of younger readers.

It won the Carnegie Medal and was voted one of the most important children's novels of the past seventy years

This thrilling stage adaptation comes from the award-winning playwright Ali Taylor, and premiered at the Polka Theatre, London.

It provides rich opportunities for discussion in the classroom, and for staging by schools, youth theatres and amateur companies.

Themes

Publication

Year Published
2012
ISBN 10
1848423144
ISBN 13
9781848423145
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Print Length
120 pages
Language
English
LCC
PR6120.A53 M33 2012
Print
The Machine Gunners is a British adaptation play written by and published by Nick Hern Books in 2012. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781848423145 and an ISBN-10 of 1848423144.

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