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08/11/2007

Exploring the cultural legacy of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, which focuses on the Allied fire bombing of Dresden during the Second World War.

An exploration of the cultural legacy of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

Vonnegut tells the story of GI Billy Pilgrim, focusing on Pilgrim's experience of the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden during the Second World War, which was largely based on the author's witness of the raids as a prisoner of war. On publication in 1969, the novel was labelled both as science fiction and a political trigger to re-evaluating the carpet bombing of German cities.

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