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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. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal for 1975, and in 2007 it was selected by judges of the Carnegie Medal as one of the ten...
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 Manufacturing Engineering Honing Scores with Machine Gunners
12/01/2006: 1,382 words, approx. 5 pages The classic Browning .50-caliber machine gun enjoys preferred status with American troops for many reasons, not the least of which that it is a straight shooter. Part of the reason for that preference is the superior accuracy and easy cleaning that results from... summary from source:
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 AP News Expert says Marine vehicle fired upon
1/26/2008: 431 words, approx. 1 pagesDamage to a turret and windshield of a Marine Humvee is evidence that someone fired at the vehicle in March when as many as 19 Afghanistan civilians were killed, an Army explosives expert testified Friday.Divots on the windshield, holes in a headlight and a nick...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Robert Westall
1,676 words, approx. 6 pages
Ever since I wrote The Machine-gunners (and in spite of the fact that my last three books have been fantasies) people keep consulting me about realism in children's books. Rather as if I'd been appointed high priest and was being asked to read the entrails. There is not much career-structure for high priests who fail to read entrails, so I'd better come clean with what I think. (p. 34) Perhaps all the best books start by being written for only one child, and that child very close to you... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Aidan Chambers
471 words, approx. 2 pages
[The Machine Gunners is] astonishingly good. (p. 438) [Gripping] though the events are, it is not so much what but the way and why it happens that is important in this book. (p. 439)
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Critical Essay by Ralph Lavender
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The Watch House, set in the Robert Westall country of The Machine-Gunners, concerns Anne, who has been dumped like a lost parcel on Prudie, her mother's old nanny…. She becomes interested in the Watch House …, where there is a museum. The past begins to catch up with the present when Anne goes to dust the display cases there, and through her two unsettled ghosts begin to work towards their final emnity against each other…. It is a fast-moving, action-packed story written in a rac...
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The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall | |
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