Haunted by the Slaughterhouse; Author Kurt Vonnegut Who Died This Week Survived the Bombing of Dresden. He Wrote a Great Antiwar Book. but Was He Unfair to the British and American Bombers?Byline: TONY RENNELLHOW could the horror he witnessed not have had an impact on his mind and every...
BeforeWorld War II, Dresden was called “the Florence of the Elbe” and was regarded as one the world’s most beautiful cities for its architecture and museums. Although no German city remained isolated from Hitler’s war machine, Dresden’s contribution to the war effort was minimal compared ...
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore ...