Slaughterhouse-five : or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
Billy Pilgrim, a chaplain's assistant during the Second World War, returns home only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present
Print Book, English, 1971, ©1969
Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1971, ©1969
War stories
215 pages ; 18 cm.
9780440180296, 9780440580294, 0440180295, 0440580293
992307
"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."