Claire Wolfe recommended The Moon Is Down a few days ago. It's a Steinbeck novelette set in a small town in Northern Europe starting on the day the conqueror's troops take control.
It's well-written propaganda from 1942 -- as approved by Wild Bill Donovan!* -- but it could be set in many places and many times. About any point in history -- trade the rifles and pistols for spears and short swords, and the troops could be from Rome or Babylon.
While not (I hope!) directly analogous to current events, it certainly contains a valuable lesson, one I hope the Great White Fathers in Washington D.C. are capable of grasping.
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* Strange but true.
It's very good. I need to read it again; thank'ee for the reminder, ma'am.
ReplyDeleteYOU ALSO WANT TO SEE THE HOLLYWOOD VERSIONS OF "THE MOON IS DOWN" AND
ReplyDelete"EDGE OF DARKNESS" GREAT WWII PROPAGANDA
I doubt it Roberta, it doesn't fit with their agenda... Just sayin...
ReplyDeleteNice to see others finding it worth reading, sometimes I think I read too much into revolution and resistance, but then I was paid for being prepared to fight or lead such...
ReplyDeleteGosh, Elder is a great title if you earned it by living longest.
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ReplyDeletethanks for pointing out the movies; I'd read the book and didn't know it was done in hollywood. I always suspected that Milius' Red Dawn was inspired by it, though.
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