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The Slaughterhouse Five
- Also Known As: The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
- Author: Kurt Vonnegut
- As Noted In: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Quintessence Editions
- As Noted In: 1100 or so Notable Novels and Novellas, Phantom
- As Noted In: All-TIME 100 Novels, TIME magazine
The Slaughterhouse Five is a notable war novel by American author and US Army soldier, Kurt Vonnegut. - AsNotedIn
The importance of Dresden in my life has been considerably exaggerated because my book about it became a bestseller. If the book hadn't been a bestseller, it would seem like a very minor experience in my life. And I don't think peoples' lives are changed by short term events like that. Dresden was astonishing, but experiences can be astonishing without changing you.
Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944/12/22 | Kurt Vonnegut | Soldier | PFC Kurt Vonnegut, intelligence scout with the 423rd Infantry Regiment of the 106th Infantry Division, is capture by the German Army and is taken by boxcar to a prison camp south of Dresden, in Saxony. | Battle of the Bulge | |||
| 1945/02/13 | Kurt Vonnegut | Soldier | Allied forces begin firebombing Dresden. Vonnegut takes shelter in a meat locker three stories underground. "It was cool there, with cadavers hanging all around." - KV | Borse Dresden | Dresden, DE | ||
| 1945/02/15 | Kurt Vonnegut | Soldier | Vonnegut: "When we came up the city was gone ... They burnt the whole damn town down." Vonnegut and other American prisoners are pressed into service to recover bodies from the rubble. He described it as a "terribly elaborate Easter-egg hunt". | Dresden, DE | Saxony | ||
| 1966/00/00 | Kurt Vonnegut | Author | By 1965, Kurt Vonnegut writes more than five thousand pages of "The Slaughterhouse Five", but none of them will make it into his final draft. | Vogt House | Iowa City | ||
| 1966/10/00 | Kurt Vonnegut | Author | Kurt Vonnegut struggles trying to decide if writing of "The Slaughterhouse Five" should be driven by a message to condemn war or should he just try to make money? | Vogt House | Iowa City | ||
| 1968/06/10 | Kurt Vonnegut | Author | Less than ten months after he returning from a research visit to Dresden, Vonnegut submits the final draft of "The Slaughterhouse Five". | ||||
| 1969/03/00 | Delacorte Press | Publisher | "The Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut is published through Delacorte Press. | ||||
| 1996/00/00 | Kurt Vonnegut | Author | I saw a hell of a lot of death, and I saw a hell of a lot of it during the Battle of the Bulge when my division was wiped out. But then in Dresden I saw a mountain of dead people. And that makes you thoughtful. - Vonnegut, interview |
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| Particulars for The Slaughterhouse Five: | |||
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Subject attribute | Confinement | ||
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Confinement Attribute | Prisoner of War | ||
| Area of Significance | Prisoner of War camp | ||
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Historic Event | World War II | ||
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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