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Slaughterhouse-five or the Children's Crusade
Slaughterhousefive or the Children's Crusade Author:Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Slaughterhouse-five is a supremely unconventional war novel based on the experiences of the author as a prisoner of war during the catastrophic fire-bombing of Dresden during WW II. The hero of the story, an American soldier who also endures and survives the fire-bombing, as well as subsequent adventures, eventually is to some extent reconciled ... more »to life as it is lived on Earth. But Vonnnegut is not, and in this remarkable book he has expressed his terrible outrage.« less