"Slaughter House Five" by Kurt Vonnegut.
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade mixes degrees of autobiography, documentary, and fantasy in an attempt to produce a book about Dresden in the time period of World War II. The autobiographical aspect is apparent in the war scenes of the novel. And the documentary and the fantastic are demonstrated through a set of imaginary novels by Kilgore Trout and the main character, Billy Pilgrim. Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in an endeavor to create "a …
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…babies," mere 18 and 19 year old kids, who went across the sea to defend the nation's pride and, also in the case of Iraq, to allow G.W. Bush to finish what his father started 10 years ago. But specifically, Vonnegut describes the war accurately and provides sufficient evidence through Mary O'Hare and Harrison Starr, Ronald Weary, and his own personal experience, having been one of the survivors of the bombing of Dresden in World War II.
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