Steinbeck, John,  1902-1968 <br/><br/>
The moon is down :  a novel / 
By John Steinbeck. 
 - New York :  The Viking Press,  1942. 
 - 188 p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> First published in March 1942. 
<br/><br/> Steinbeck's comment on the moral and ethical implications of war, begins in an unknown town that has just been occupied by a small regiment of enemy soldiers. With no altenrnative, the Mayor of the town agrees to meet with the enemy to try to work out a plan for peaceful co-existence before the impending war goes much further. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Military occupation--Fiction<br/>War--Fiction<br/>War stories<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction