Other editions of book Operation Archangel: 1940, Southern England, and six boy scouts are willing to risk all for King and Country...

A World War II novel. Shortlisted for the 2018 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Young Adult Fiction.It's 1940. Britain is ravaged by war, and in a small town in Kent, in the southeast of England, six orphan boys decide to form their own rag-tag boy scout troop to help out on the home front. During an air raid, they mount an unmanned anti-aircraft gun and manage to shoot down a German dive-bomber. Like lightning, news of their courage and resourcefulness reaches the ears of Boy Scout founder Lord Baden-Powell, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and even King George VI, as well as leaders of a newly formed branch of British Intelligence, the Special Operations Executive, who wants to recruit them for a dangerous undercover mission in Nazi Germany. Now they must go through rigorous training, meeting all kinds of secret inventors and future war heroes along the way.

It's 1940. Britain is ravaged by war, and in a small town in Kent, in the southeast of England, six orphan boys decide to form their own rag-tag boy scout troop to help out on the home front. During an air raid, they man an anti-aircraft gun and manage to shoot down a German dive-bomber... and then capture the pilot! Their courage and resourcefulness attract the attention of the King, who presents them with medals, and of British Intelligence who wants to recruit them for a dangerous undercover mission in Nazi Germany. Now they must go through rigorous training, meeting all kinds of secret inventors and future war heroes along the way.