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Cover of Slaughterhouse Five
Slaughterhouse Five
or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death
Read August 9, 2025

Publication Details

Type: Ebook
Publisher: Randon House
Published: 1969

Reading Details

Pages: 118
Location: Lawrence, KS

Content & Notes

First Paragraph:

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn’t his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I’ve changed all the names.

Tags

American Literature Science Fiction World War II