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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

OR THE CHILDREN'S
CRUSADE
A Duty-dance with Death

KURT VONNEGUT, JR.

A fourth-generation German-American
now living in easy circumstances
on Cape Cod
[and smoking too much],
who, as an American infantry scout
hors de combat,
as a prisoner of war,
witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany,
'The Florence of the Elbe,'
a long time ago,
and survived to tell the tale.
This is a novel
somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic
manner of tales
of the planet Tralfamadore,
where the flying saucers
come from.
Peace.


Granada Publishing Limited
Published in 1972 by Panther Books Ltd
Frogmore, St Albans, Herts AL2 2NF
Reprinted 1972, 1973 (twice), 1974, 1975

First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1970
Copyright (D Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1969
Made and printed in Great Britain by
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Bungy, Suffolk
Set in Linotype Plantin

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This book is published at a net price and is supplied subject to the Publishers Association Standard Conditions of Sale registered under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:

'The Waking': copyright 1953 by Theodore Roethke from
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF THEODORE ROETHKE
printed by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc.