The Machine Gunners
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Our cover illustration this month is by Alan Lee from The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien. The first-ever colour illustrated edition is now available from HarperCollins (0 261 102230 3) at £30.00. We thank them for their help in reproducing the cover of the book.
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Read by James Bolam
The Machine Gunners is typical Westall - a vigorous story which gets more and more tense and frightening. Set in war-time Tyneside, it starts innocently enough with Chas collecting war souvenirs, but when he steals the potentially lethal machine gun and ammunition and with his friends involves the escaped German prisoner, danger creeps insidiously closer. James Bolam is just the right reader for this unabridged, taut and economical tale. His Tyneside accent makes the boys totally credible as ordinary lads caught up in the hardships and reality of war.
