A writer who fought in the second world war, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was taken prisoner in the Battle of the Bulge and survived the bombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war. These experiences, among many, led Vonnegut to be a lifelong pacifist with a penchant for writing about the human condition in a way that few have been able to do. 

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