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Nov 29, 2010derekwolfgram rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Trademark Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect is incisive, moving, and funny. With a collection of essays spanning his career from before the beginning (a letter home from Dresden to his family penned in 1945, seven years before Player Piano was published) to after the end (a speech he was supposed to give two weeks after his death), each of these previously unpublished writings demonstrates the horrors of war from a different perspective. If this book doesn't leave you wishing and working for pe...more Trademark Vonnegut, Armageddon in Retrospect is incisive, moving, and funny. With a collection of essays spanning his career from before the beginning (a letter home from Dresden to his family penned in 1945, seven years before Player Piano was published) to after the end (a speech he was supposed to give two weeks after his death), each of these previously unpublished writings demonstrates the horrors of war from a different perspective. If this book doesn't leave you wishing and working for peace, nothing will.