Like his protagonist, Vonnegut was sixty feet underground as a German prisoner of war during the firebombing of Dresden. Due to Billy's situation and his hiding, the reader only gets fragmented images of what really happened. Billy hears German soldiers talking about the destruction: “There was a firestorm there. Dresden was a great flame. The single flame ate everything organic, everything that could burn” (Vonnegut, 227). This description gives the reader a limited perspective on the destruction, it gives us an idea of ​​the severity of the obliteration, but it provides no reasoning. Slaughterhouse-Five is one-sided and completely subjective. Vonnegut explicitly states in the first chapter that he is writing an anti-war novel. The historical context of the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five is just as significant as the period in which the novel is set. Vonnegut published his famous anti-war novel during the Vietnam War, in 1969. The Vietnam War divided Americans, many protested vehemently against the war, which they considered totally unjustified and unnecessary