The Life Of Kurt Vonnegut
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was filled with great accomplishments and
great tragedies. The biggest tragedy that he faced had to be the fire
bombing of Dresden in World War II. This is the topic of his book
Slaughterhouse-Five. The book talks about one of Vonnegut's friends who
slips in and out of reality, having flashback ....
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.... captured by Germans
during the Battle of the Bulge. On the night of February 13, 1945 exactly
100 American P.O.W.'s and five German soldiers took shelter in a meat
locker while the Royal Air Force joined by U.S bombers attacked and
successfully annihilated the city of Dresden in one of the most vicious air
raids ever. The firestorm left over 130,000 people dead and many more
missing. This event became a major influence in his writing career ("The
Biographies of Kurt Vonnegut" 775).
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