The Moon is Down and A Bell for Adano: Two specific examples of American propaganda literature in the Second World War

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: “By ten- forty-five, it was all over. The town was occupied, the defenders defeated, and the war finished” and “Invasion had come to the town of Adano.” these are the opening lines of John Steinbeck's novel The Moon is Down and John Hersey’s A Bell for Adano....