A special edition of Vonnegut's time-hopping Second World War classic, and the moment of the much-loved cult author's powers of humour, dark irony and humanity at fiercest effect. Marks the fiftieth anniversary of initial publication 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONAs a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come.
