Here’s a book that ticks several varied boxes on this blog: fiction that is a disguised autobiography, the author’s recollections of war, and science fiction. As a young soldier during the Second World War, Vonnegut witnessed the firebombing of Dresden and was left 3extermely shaken by the experience. He had a compulsion, as a writer, to tell this story but did not know how he could do it justice. The eventual result is a slim volume filled with an extraordinary mix of humour, science fiction and, of course, a chilling account of a terrible war crime, informed by the author’s personal experience.
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