Novelists Using Personal War Experiences

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Novelists Using Personal War Experiences

• Kurt Vonnegut
• James Jones

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Slaughterhouse-Five

• Billy Pilgrim, POW
• Dresden bombing
• Feb. 13, 1945
• 135,000 killed
• so it goes.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Stockholm Syndrome

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Slaughterhouse-Five
View from the Bruhler Castle tower of the
Frauenkirche, 1945
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View from the Georgen Gate showing the ruins of
the Frauenkirche and surrounding buildings,
summer 1947
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View of Dresden's Neumarkt and the Frauenkirche,
August 1949
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• Das hat der Feind gethan!
• -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe following 1760 siege of
  Dresden by Prussians

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From Here to Eternity

• Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt
• Sgt. Milt Warden
• Pearl Harbor sneak attack
• Dec. 7, 1941
• 2,402 U.S. Military Civilian Dead
• 18 U.S. ships sank or damaged 161 planes
  destroyed
• Japanese lost 64 dead, 29 planes 6 subs

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From Here to Eternity
Capt. Mose Gross Assistant navigator, USS Helena
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• Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A small boat rescues a
  seaman from the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia
  burning in the foreground. Smoke rolling out
  amidships shows where the most extensive damage
  occurred. Note the two men in the superstructure.
  The USS Tennessee is inboard.

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• Pearl Harbor bombing. Destruction. Smoke pours
  from the USS Shaw, bombed dry dock (right center)
  while in the foreground lies the capsized USS
  Oglala, a minelayer. To the left is the 10,000
  ton cruiser, USS Helena, struck by an aerial
  torpedo on the starboard side. The concussion
  caused the Oglala, formerly berthed alongside the
  Helena to flood and she turned over after being
  brought to dock. At the extreme left, may be seen
  some of the superstructure of the USS
  Pennsylvania and at the right appears to be the
  USS Maryland burning

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Jack H. Good

• Navy Yeoman Second Class
• USS Vestal
• The Vestal was tied to the Arizona when the
  Japanese attacked

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Jack Goods Ship

• Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Vestal. This U.S.
  repair ship, twice bombed by Japanese fliers, was
  beached after the ship started flooding. The
  Vestal has since been repaired

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Naval Air Station

• Pearl Harbor bombing. Naval air station. This is
  the wreckage-strewn naval air station at Pearl
  Harbor following one of the Japanese sneak
  attacks on the morning of December 7, 1941. In
  the background, an explosion sends a mass of
  flames and smoke high in the sky

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Interview with Kristin Vogel, Queens, New York,
Nov. 4, 2001 (part 1 of 2)

• September 11, 2001,
• Documentary Project

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From Here to Eternity

• We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa!
  Baa! Baa!
• We're little black sheep who've gone astray,
  Baa--aa--aa!
• Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,
• Damned from here to Eternity,
• God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!
• --Gentlemen-Rankers by Rudyard Kipling

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