362 Kurt Vonnegut (with Tom Roston)
The History of Literature
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He Was Not Anti War, but He Was an Artist
He saw the bombing of dresden, yes. He was horrified by what he saw. And being in that slaughter house is what saved him and his fellow prisoners of war,. The hundred and 50 of them, because the rin the icn of cement bunker, basically. While the rest of dres den was getting bombed to bits, and tens of thousands of germans were dying, these americans were saved. So i've seen a theory that the way he dealt with war and dresden and slaughter house five was kind of an example for someone with p t s d might deal with the memory or the atrocity.
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