The Machine-Gunners
Macmillan, 1975.
First edition. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, in the original pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper.
Author's first children's novel and winner of the Carnegie medal. Set in the England during the second world war a group of children find a crashed German aircraft with a machine gun and ammunition; they build a fortress and capture and imprison a German gunner. The Machine-Gunners was dramatised as a BBC television serial in 1983, has been serialised for radio and adapted for stage.
Stock ID: 43954
