Publisher's Synopsis
Tom and his gang know there is going to be a war and gradually they see their familiar landmarks change - the football pitch and swings are ringed in with barbed wire and sand bags appear to shield anti-aircraft guns. Then the evacuees arrive. One of them, known as Scouser, becomes the catalyst for conflict in Tom's gang. The conflict develops into their own private war. As the air-raids intensify, the children's battle culminates in a terrifying adventure in a disused mineshaft hundreds of feet below the earth.
