Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death - Vintage Classics

50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONAs 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.This special edition is published with notes of appreciation from some of the book's ardent fans (Kate Atkinson, Richard Herring, Robin Ince) as well as fascinating extra material from Vonnegut's archive which casts light on the genesis, reception and enduring influence of an iconic American classic.Design © DIEGO BECAS

ISBN:	9781784874858
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Published date:	28 Mar 2019
DEWEY:	813.54
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	44843
Number of pages:	238
Weight:	344g
Height:	145mm
Width:	205mm
Spine width:	26mm

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