BOOK REVIEW

Kurt Vonnegut’s Literal Crusade Against War: Slaughterhouse-Five

Even after many decades since it was published, the anti-war novel still keeps readers under its spell.

Abdullah Ayasun
5 min readApr 14

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Dance, a fictionalized account of the Allied bombing of the German city…

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Abdullah Ayasun

New York-based journalist and writer. Columbia School of Journalism. 2023 White House Correspondents' Association Scholar. Twitter: @abyasun