The Evolution of Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut | Salon Books: "April 7, 2008 | On May 29, 1945, Pfc. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. sat down at a typewriter in the Red Cross Club of the POW Repatriation Camp in Le Havre, France, and wrote his family a letter. 'I'm told that you were probably never informed that I was anything other than 'missing in action,'' he began. 'That leaves me a lot of explaining to do.'"