Drawing on his own POW experience, Vonnegut tells the story of young Billy Pilgrim, an American infantry scout held prisoner during the firebombing of Dresden in World War II, and his subsequent adventures in time. This is one of the great antiwar books.

The Woodstock Festival was the watershed for the hedonism and excesses of the '60s youth movement, as nearly half a million music fans migrated to a pasture in upstate New York for a three-day concert featuring rock legends Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, and the Who.