SlaughterhouseFive
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dominated (sometimes published with the subtitle The Children's Crusade) is a 1969 anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. It follows Billy Pilgrim, an unremarkable American optometrist and World War II soldier, who becomes unstuck in time and moves through a nonlinear sequence of moments from his life. The narrative blends satirical realism with science fiction as Billy is abducted by the alien Tralfamadorians, who perceive time as a fixed four-dimensional reality.
A central thread centers on the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945, an event that Vonnegut himself
Slaughterhouse-Five employs metafictional devices and a spare, sardonic style to critique war, memory, and free will.