Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Home After Surviving Dresden

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In 1945, Kurt Vonnegut wrote this letter to his family to tell them he was alive.  In it he describes an experience as a POW in Dresden very similar to that of Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist in Slaughterhouse 5.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/slaughterhouse-five.html

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