"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a chaplain's assistant named Billy Pilgrim. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. Vonnegut's use of the firebombing of Dresden as a central event makes the novel semi-autobiographical, because he was present then."@en . "29960763" . . "PS3572.O5 S6 1994" . . . "0-385-31208-3 (first edition, hardback)" . . . . . . "Slaughterhouse-Five"@en .