war and the children’s crusade

Slaughterhouse-Five book review "All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true". So begins the introduction to Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut's first really successful novel. Vonnegut served in the American army in World War II, was captured by the Germans, and, in February, 1945, survived the Allies' bombing of Dresden [...]