Anti-war novels (Book Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 41. Chapters: Johnny Got His Gun, All Quiet on the Western Front, A Farewell to Arms, Catch-22, The Red Badge of Courage, Cat's Cradle, On the Beach, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Good Soldier ¿vejk, The Forever War, The Tin Drum, Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War, The Short-Timers, Company K, Celestial Matters, Generals Die in Bed, The Starlight Barking, From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, Two Women, Return of the Brute, Fires on the Plain, To the End of the Land, Grave of the Fireflies, Three Soldiers, Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English, The Big War, Die Brücke. Excerpt: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim. Ranked the 18th greatest English novel of the 20th century by Modern Library, it is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. The work is also known under the lengthy title: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children¿s Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, A Fourth-Generation German-American Low Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod , Who, as an American Infantry Scout Hors de Combat, as a Prisoner of War, Witnessed the Fire Bombing of Dresden, Germany, ¿The Florence of the Elbe,¿ a Long Time Ago, and Survived to Tell the Tale. This is a Novel Somewhat in the Telegraphic Schizophrenic Manner of Tales of the Planet Tralfamadore, Where the Flying Saucers Come From. Peace. Chaplain's Assistant Billy Pilgrim is a disoriented, fatalistic, and ill-trained American soldier. He does not like wars and he is captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. The Germans put Billy and his fellow prisoners in a disused slaughterhouse (although there are animal carcasses hanging in the underground shelter) in Dresden. Their building is known as "Slaughterhouse number 5". The POWs and German guards alike hide in a deep cellar; because of their safe hiding place, they are some of the few survivors of the city-destroying firestorm during the Bombing of Dresden in World War II. Billy has come "unstuck in time" and experiences past and future events out of sequence and repetitively, following a nonlinear narrative. He is kidnapped by extraterrestrial aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. They exhibit him in a zoo with B-movie starlet Montana Wildhack as his mate. The Tralfamadorians, who can see in four dimensions, have already seen every instant of their lives. They say they cannot choose to change anything about their fates, but can c