Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty dance with death
Vonnegut, Kurt2019
Book
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When he did write about it, he combined his trademark humour, unfettered imagination, boundless humanity and keen sense of irony to create one of the most powerful anti-war books every written, and an enduring American classic.
Main title:
Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty dance with death / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Author:
Vonnegut, Kurt, author
Work:
Edition:
50th anniversary edition.
Imprint:
London : Vintage Classics, 2019.
Collation:
238 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781784874858 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.54FICTION
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
2781392