TY - BOOK AU - Vonnegut,Kurt TI - Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death SN - 9780385333849 U1 - 813/.54 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Dial Press KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Free will and determinism N1 - "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." ER -