Slaughterhouse-Five
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Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction–infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy
First edition cover
A 1965 photograph of Vonnegut by Bernard Gotfryd
The Alter Schlachthof (Old Slaughterhouse) where Vonnegut sheltered from the bombing of Dresden.
Bombing of Dresden
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In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary
Slaughterhouse-Five
…temporal crisis as a result of his post-war psychological trauma. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Allied firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war, an experience that Vonnegut endured as an American serviceman. The work has been called an example of "unmatched moral clarity…
Dresden after the bombing
Destruction visible from the Rathaus ('townhall') in 1945
Colourised photograph of Dresden during the 1890s with the Frauenkirche, Augustus Bridge, and Katholische Hofkirche visible
The Altstadt ('old town') in 1910 from the town hall