Vonnegut’s Last Roar February 2, 2008
February 2, 2008 –
KURT Vonnegut is gone - but he left behind a final book that’s sure to cause a stir. In “Armageddon in Retrospect,” out this April, the former Army man gives a jolting account of the relentless bombing of Dresden during World War II and how US forces passed out pamphlets to survivors justifying it as the “unintentional, unavoidable fortunes of war.
” He writes: “The leaflet should have read: We hit every blessed church, hospital, school, museum, theater, your university, the zoo and every apartment building in town, but we honestly weren’t trying hard to do it . . . So sorry.
Saturation bombing is all the rage these days.”
