The Machine Gunners

Author : Robert Westall
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780833542663
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine Gunners written by Robert Westall and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it.

Author : Robert Westall
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330478176
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine Gunners written by Robert Westall and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Some bright kid's got a gun and 2000 rounds of live ammo. And that gun's no pea-shooter. 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 . . . The Machine Gunners is Robert Westall's gripping first novel for children set during World War Two and winner of the Carnegie Medal. Now with a brilliant cover look celebrating its fortieth anniversary. Includes a bonus short story - 'The Haunting of Chas McGill' - and an extended biography of the author.

Author : Johnnie Clark
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307415376
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunner's Glory written by Johnnie Clark and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were warriors, trained to fight, dedicated to their country, and determined to win. At Guadalcanal, the Marine Corps’ machine gunners took everything the Japanese could throw at them in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II; their position was so hopeless that at one point they were given the go-ahead to surrender. Near the Chosin Reservoir in Korea, as the mercury dropped to twenty below, the 1st Marine Division found itself surrounded and cut off by the enemy. The outlook seemed so bleak that many in Washington had privately written off the men. But surrender is not part of a Marine’s vocabulary. Gunner’s Glory contains true stories of these and other tough battles in the Pacific, in Korea, and in Vietnam, recounted by the machine gunners who fought them. Bloody, wounded, sometimes barely alive, they stayed with their guns, delivering a stream of firepower that often turned defeat into victory–and always made them the enemy’s first target.

Author : Robert Westall
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446495035
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scarecrows written by Robert Westall and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were three people, standing in the darkest place, watching him. Simon is outraged that his Mum plans to remarry. He can't bear her new fiancé or the way his mother and sister seem to have forgotten his late father. Overwhelmed by hatred and anger he seeks solace in a nearby abandoned water mill. But another, powerful hatred lingers within its walls. And it is about to be unleashed... Westall's immense talent is evident from the opening line - Simon's anger and unhappiness are tangible, and the Scarecrows' ill-intentions terrifying.

Author : Ali Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780435149444
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine Gunners written by Ali Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nobody breaks up this gang. And I mean nobody. Not Boddser, not the police, not your folks and definitely not the Germans. This is our territory and I will fight to the death for this place.' The gripping story of Chas McGill and his school friends offers a vivid account of life in The Blitz.

Author : Johnnie Clark
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 030777855X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guns Up! written by Johnnie Clark and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE. "Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to ten seconds after a firefight began. Johnnie was only eighteen when he got there, at the height of the bloody Tet Offensive at Hue, and he quickly realized the grim statistic held a chilling truth. The Marines who fought and bled and died were ordinary men, many still teenagers, but the selfless bravery they showed day after day in a nightmarish jungle war made them true heroes. This new edition of Guns Up!, filled with photographs and updated information about those harrowing battles, also contains the real names of these extraordinary warriors and details of their lives after the war. The book's continuing success is a tribute to the raw courage and sacrifice of the United States Marines.

Author : Robert Westall
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330478206
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blitzcat written by Robert Westall and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She made her way down the cliff, and on to the beach. At the edge of the waves, she stopped, shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person, but far, far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossable sea. She led the way to safety, out of the blazing hell of blitzed Coventry. People touched her for luck; feared her as an omen of disaster. Wherever she went, she changed lives . . . From her beginning to her end she never wavered. She was the Blitzcat. Blitzcat by Robert Westall is the Smarties Prize-winning book about one brave cat's experiences during World War Two. Now with a brilliant new cover look and including an extended author biography.

Author : C. E. Crutchley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473816092
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Gunner, 1914–18 written by C. E. Crutchley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914 there were only two machine guns supporting a British infantry battalion of 800 men, and in the light of the effectiveness of German and French machine guns the Machine Gun Corps was formed in October 1915. This remarkable book, compiled and edited by C E Crutchley, is a collection of the personal accounts of officers and men who served in the front lines with their machine guns in one of the most ghastly wars, spread over three continents. The strength of the book lies in the fact that these are the actual words of the soldiers themselves, complete with characteristic modes of expression and oddities of emphasis and spelling. All theatres of war are covered from the defence of the Suez Canal, Gallipoli and Mesopotamia in the east to France and Flanders, the German offensive of March 1918 and the final act on the Western Front that brought the war to an end. October 2006 is the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Machine Gun Corps.

Author : Charles M. DuPuy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Machine Gunner's Notes, France 1918 written by Charles M. DuPuy and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Westall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330340656
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haunting of Chas McGill and Other Stories written by Robert Westall and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight stories of the supernatural.