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KV

Kurt Vonnegut

USA · WWII — fiction

About

Captured during the Battle of the Bulge and held in Dresden, where he survived the firebombing in an underground meat locker. Slaughterhouse-Five came out of that night.

Books in Database (1)

Slaughterhouse-Five cover
Slaughterhouse-Five 1969 · 275 pages

Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time, drifting between his experiences as a POW in Dresden and an alien zoo.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1945 Bombing of Dresden