Slaughterhouse-five, or, the children's crusade a duty-dance with death Slaughterhouse-5 Children's crusade Slaughterhouse-five Vonnegut, Kurt creator author. text novel Fiction. Historical fiction. History. War fiction. War stories. Historical fiction. War fiction. Historical fiction. nyu 1991 1969 monographic eng print regular print 215 pages ; 18 cm Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier captured by the Germans, witnesses firebombing and destruction in Dresden. Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. Young Adult. juvenile by Kurt Vonnegut, a fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "the Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace. "A Laurel book." e-gx--- Soldiers Fiction Trout, Kilgore (Fictitious character) Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Fiction Dresden (Germany) History Bombardment, 1945 Fiction War stories Trout, Kilgore (Fictitious character) Fiction Space flight Fiction Bombardment of Dresden (Germany : 1945) World War (1939-1945) Soldiers Trout, Kilgore (Fictitious character) War stories Germany Dresden 1939-1945 fast PS3572.O5 S55 1991 813.54 17.97 18.06 e 0440180295 9780440180296 9780812417753 0812417755 9781439501634 1439501637 OCO 080610 20170927134957.0 in00003772767 eng