"Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD God Almighty, says: "There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail." - Amos 5:16 (NIV)
"In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping." Isaiah 15:3 (NIV)
"Wailing Shall Be In All Streets" - Vonnegut's more straightforward account of the bombing of Dresden
Vonnegut's first letter home after his POW experience
Random House's academic resources
Billy Pilgrim's Life - A Chronology (with chapter numbers)
Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
Original newsreel footage of the bombing
Fatalism
"Though the word 'fatalism' is commonly used to refer to an attitude of resignation in the face of some future event or events which are thought to be inevitable, philosophers usually use the word to refer to the view that we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy