Slaughterhouse 5This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of wareach a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. Billy Pilgrimhapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower, and soldierhas become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden,