Kurt Vonnegut's life was not without its ironies. Fighting in World War II, that descendant of a long line of German immigrants in the United States found himself imprisoned in Dresden just when it was devastated by Allied firebombing.
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    The 40 pages of notes amid Vonnegut’s papers include several revisions of its rules, but also pitch letters to board-game companies suggesting that *GHQ *could “become the third popular checkerboard game” — and even “be used to train cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.”