Slaughterhouse-5: Kurt VonnegutPrisoner of war, optometrist, time traveller these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, the hero of this moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. One of the world's great anti war books, this centres on the infamous bombing of Dresden during Word War II, Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. Slaughterhouse Five made Kurt Vonnegut