Slaughterhouse 5

<p><b>Read Kurt Vonnegut''s powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.</b><br><br>Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber''s assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?<br><br>Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.<br><br><b>‘An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist’ <i>New York Times</i> Book Review<br><br>This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.</b></p>