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Slaughterhouse-Five: Anti-War, Science Fiction, Kurt Vonnegut, Time Travel, Billy Pilgrim, Battle of the Bulge, Dresden
SlaughterhouseFive AntiWar Science Fiction Kurt Vonnegut Time Travel Billy Pilgrim Battle of the Bulge Dresden High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is an anti-war science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim. Chaplain's Assistant Billy Pilgrim, a disoriented, fatalistic, ill-trained Ame... more »rican soldier, is captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge and taken to a prison in Dresden. The Germans put Billy and his fellow prisoners in a disused slaughterhouse, known as "Slaughterhouse number 5". The POWs and German guards alike hide in a deep cellar; because of their safe hiding place, they are some of the few survivors of the city-destroying firestorm during the Bombing of Dresden in World War II.« less