The firebombing was a three day mission which went from February 13till the14 of 1945. The British bombers dropped 2,260 tons of high explosives firebomb on the city of Dresden, creating a firestorm that consumed most of the inner city (Johannes and Andreas 582). The Americans also flew two daylight attacks, on February 14 and 15 and dropped almost 3,000 tons of bombs (Johannes and Andrea 586). The aftermath of this bombing lead to the destruction of several thousand of buildings, which included catholic churches, the city’s oldest town and eastern suburbs were all destroyed (Johannes and Andrea 588). But aside from the severe destruction of the city, the 130,000 so life which were lost in 24 hours brought to question the morality of massive …show more content…
In chapter one, he starts off the story by trying to recollect with O’Hare on what happen in Dresden, which one can infer at that early stage of the book that Dresden might be the map road of which every other story touched on the novel revolved on. When the author said in chapter one “…..i thought it would be easy for me to write about Dresden ….. but not many words about Dresden came from my mind….and not many words come now, either….(2)” suggest to the reader that that affect of the bombing had a permanent scare on him. Although the bomb had major affect on massive destruction in city, one can only imagine the emotion destruction in which the bombing had on the narrator. This also brings back the question of morality of the bombing, was the killing of more than 130, 000 people in one day necessary in ending the war quickly. The author in way tried to attempt to answer this question when he made the comparison of a glacier to war. He suggested that war and glacier are unstoppable which a matter of fate is and this was later on in the novel supported by the Tralfamadorians. The Tralfamadorian’s suggested that war is part of life and it would come despite all man’s effort to stop. So, with war comes lingering question of the morality of massive bombing which to this day is