"Hey, you bombed this city until it looked like the surface of the moon. Bombings are horrific. I am carrying around this deep personal horror at what I saw and it is so great that I'm experiencing a mental break. Now check out this cool Sci-Fi I conjured up as a coping mechanism."
Yeah, on second thought putting it into the context of the book it's definitely not, I just couldn't recall if he made any mention of actual military targets. Given that it's about his experience there it probably wasn't a really standout detail of the event.
Hardly. He did Pyongyang 75 in Germany.
"Hey, you bombed this city until it looked like the surface of the moon. Bombings are horrific. I am carrying around this deep personal horror at what I saw and it is so great that I'm experiencing a mental break. Now check out this cool Sci-Fi I conjured up as a coping mechanism."
Yeah, on second thought putting it into the context of the book it's definitely not, I just couldn't recall if he made any mention of actual military targets. Given that it's about his experience there it probably wasn't a really standout detail of the event.
Slaughterhouse Five was basically just PTSD by way of Sci-Fi. They definitely didn't go into the high level tactical utility of Dresden.