Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death - Vonnegut, Kurt 1922-2007 (A dial press trade paperback, 2009)
"A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on cape cod [and smoking too much], who, as n American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of dresden, Germany, "the florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale, this is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace"