TY - BOOK AU - Steinbeck,John TI - The moon is down: a novel PY - 1942/// CY - New York PB - The Viking Press KW - Military occupation KW - Fiction KW - War stories KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Juvenile fiction N2 - 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 ER -