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Slaughterhouse-Five

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'Slaughterhouse-Five' or 'The Children's Crusade' is a novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. It is set mostly in Germany, and recounts the bombing of Dresden in World War II. ISBN 0440180295

A motion picture of the same named was made in 1972. The film was directed by George Roy Hill and starred Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine.

Plot

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American soldier Billy Pilgrim is captured by German soldiers and is forced to live in a makeshift prison. Occasionally he travels through time and space to the planet Tralfamadore.