I recently reread _Slaughterhouse-Five_. Vonnegut got quite a bit of the
historical information from David Irving's book on Dresden, which, AIUI,
was controversial at the time. After _Slaughterhouse-Five_ was published,
Irving's deficiencies as a historian were fairly well demonstrated (e.g.
by Lucy Dawidowicz in _The Holocaust and the Historians_ and more recently
by Deborah Lipstadt). Did Vonnegut ever say anything in later years about
his opinion of Irving's work?
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Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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