The Machine Gunners

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The Machine Gunners is a book by Robert Westall (1929-1993) that was adapted by the BBC into a British television serial in 1983.

The series is set during the Second World War and deals with a group of children living in the North East of England in a town called Garmouth regularly suffering from bomb attacks by the German forces. One of the children raids a German aircraft that has crash-landed in the area and steals a fully operational machine gun, intending to set up their own fortress. In time, the gang also befriend a German pilot who is shot down.

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