This city on the Elbe River was home to Kurt Vonnegut's title 1969 abattoir
The city called itself ElbflorenzFlorence on the Elbeand it had once been a ... 
whose diaries from the Nazi era, published in the nineties under the title I Will ... 
Kurt Vonnegut, who survived the bombing as a prisoner of war, made ... in his 
1969 novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, which quotes Irving's book.