"In Slaughterhouse Five, -- Or the Children's Crusade, Vonnegut finally delivers a complete treatise on the World War II bombing of Dresden. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is a very young infantry scout* who is captured in the Battle of the Bulge and quartered in a Dresden slaughterhouse where he and other prisoners are employed in the production of a vitamin supplement for pregnant women. During the February 13, 1945, firebombing by Allied aircraft, the prisoners take shelter in an underground meat locker. When they emerge, the city has been levelled and they are forced to dig corpses out of the rubble. The story of Billy Pilgrim is the story of Kurt Vonnegut who was captured and survived the firestorm in which 135,000 German civilians perished, more than the number of deaths in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined."

Source: http://www.vonnegutweb.com/sh5/index.html


Used book received from Better World Books as a replacement for a damaged copy
which had been sent by mistake -- the condition stated on the website was "used good".
Thank you, Better World Books! :D

Registered in advance with a pre-numbered label on April 14, 2011.
Book arrived on April 28th 2011.

This is another one of my favourites.
It arrived today and continues it's travels promptly.
RABCK victim, i.e. YOU, found in advance. :D


Sent as part of the April 28 - Pay It Forward Day, to pay forward for all the wonderful RABCKs I have so far received from generous bookcrossers from around the world.

Happy reading!