“Another book I would recommend is Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. It also has a science fiction time travel element to it.”
Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.
Not sure I have it exactly right, but that is one of the great opening lines.
Vonnegut may be a hard leftie, but he dealt with a lot in WW2.
He was captured by the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge, and interned in Dresden. He was there for the massive Allied bombing raid. After the bombing, he and his fellow prisoners were taken out to help retrieve the bodies of the dead. The Germans that he dealt with made it clear that they associated him as an American with the destruction that had befallen them.
He was interned with his fellows in a slaughterhouse, thus Schlachthof-fünf, or Slaughterhouse Five. The shelter that he was in had some element of design (I’ve forgotten what it was) that allowed he and the other prisoners to survive when lots of German civilians roasted or asphyxiated in theirs.