Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death - I never read Vonnegut in high school or in college, and this book was the second Vonnegut work I've read. I'm finding reviewing this book to be rather difficult.;First, the book is highly important piece of literature. It is a good anti-war book. The narrative tone is great, the humanity of the characters is believable, the time jumping and non-linear format actually work for the book and not against it.Vonnegut seems to have written the book in part so he could try and come to terms with the bombing of Dresden, an event that at time Vonnegut wrote the book, very few people in America knew about. And this is where I start to feel conflicted.I feel conflicted because in this book, Vonnegut refers to David Irving. I've read Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, so I know who Irving is. I've also read Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial written by Evans who testified in the trial and who dismantled Irving's "scholarship", including Irving's work on Dresden.Now, Vonnegut couldn't know what people know today about Irving, shot Irving was still allowed into Canada then. But reading Voneegut's book today, I have to wonder how many people reading it would know about Irving. I know I didn't know about him until I read the books listed above. This, I don't know, distrubs and worries aren't the right words, I don't what it is, but it felt like a cold shower.Yet the book is so powerful.