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The Moon is Down

by John Steinbeck

In a North European country that has been invaded, a small town’s residents move from confusion to a quiet, growing anger that challenges the occupying forces. The novel portrays how this anger gradually undermines the conquerors, eventually making them experience fear. The book was widely circulated as Allied propaganda during Nazi occupation, despite suppression in Fascist Italy where possession could be punishable by death.

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