Author : Robert Westall
Publisher : HarperTeen
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780688154981
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 :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : Robert Westall
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1975
Category : England
ISBN : 9780140309737
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 : Johnnie Clark
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307415376
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 : Johnnie Clark
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2002-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0345450264
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
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780753415283
Guaranteed to thrill and chill, this spine-tingling collection of 22 spooky stories includes contributions by Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, and many other well-known writers.
Author : Robert Westall
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1446495035
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 : Robert Westall
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0330478206
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 : Robert Westall
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2025-04-10
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ISBN : 9780008726553
Author : C. E. Crutchley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1473816092
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.
