Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing 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.
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- American science fiction
- bombing of Dresden
- Open Library staff picks
- military fiction
- war stories
- World War II
- World War, 1939-1945
- literature and the war
- war
- free will and determinism
- literary fiction
- Fiction
- Animals
- Boats and boating
- Juvenile fiction
- Accelerated Reader
- Domestic animals
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, general
- Fiction, war & military
- World war, 1939-1945, fiction
- Classic Literature
- Drama
- Vonnegut, kurt, 1922-2007
- American literature, history and criticism
- Destruction and pillage
- World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
- Roman américain
- Literature
- American literature
- Literatură americană
- Roman
- Time travel
- Voyages dans le temps
- Romans, nouvelles
- Science fiction
- Prisoners of war
- Children and war
- Historical fiction
- Ficción
- Guerra Mundial 11, 1939-1945
- American Fantasy fiction
- American Spy stories
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