Question: What is the name of the novel that was used as a reference in the naming of So It Goes and is based on an event in the author's (Kurt Vonnegut) own life involving surviving the Allies' firebombing of Dresden in World War II as a prisoner-of-war?
Context: The Ruhr Question was a political topos put on the agenda by the Allies of World War I and the Allies of World War II in the negotiations following each respective war, concerning how to deal with the economic and technological potential of the area where the Rhine and Ruhr intersect.  France was heavily in favor of monitoring this region, due to the perception that the economic and technological potential of the region had allowed the German Reich to threaten and occupy France during the Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II.  The Ruhr question was intimately associated with the Saar Statute and the German Question.  There was also a close relationship between the Ruhr Question and the Allied occupation of the Rhineland (1919-1930), the Occupation of the Ruhr (1923-1924, 1925), the founding of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (1946), the Monnet Plan (1946-1950), the Marshall Plan (1948-1952), the International Authority for the Ruhr (1949-1952), the Schuman Declaration (1950), and the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community (1951).  The political treatment of the Ruhr question is known as "Ruhrpolitik" in German.  When one looks at the Rhineland as a whole or the attempted establishment of the Rhenish Republic in 1923, the terms "Rhein- und Ruhrfrage" or "Rhein-Ruhr-Frage" are used in German. Banstead Prisoner-of-War Camp was set up in 1939 in Banstead Woods in Surrey, England.  The War Department requisitioned some land which was initially used as a military camp for the Canadian Army and then for the remainder of World War II as a prisoner-of-war camp for Italians and then for Germans. The Cabanatuan American Memorial, formally known as Camp Pangatian, is a World War II memorial located near Cabanatuan City, Philippines.  Camp Pangatian was a military training camp for twenty years until it was converted into a concentration camp for allied prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation.  The liberation of Camp Pangatian is known as the most successful tactical rescue mission ever executed by the American military.  They were aided by Filipino guerrillas who were fighting the invaders.  The Raid at Cabanatuan was the result of both the Bataan Death March and Prisoner-of-war camp.  Although the Bataan Death March was a significant historical event, the establishment of its memorial in Cabanatuan was not mentioned in any major U.S. news outlets.  This tactical operation was immortalized in the movie The Great Raid.  The memorial was dedicated on April 12, 1982 by the survivors of the Bataan Death March and the prisoner-of-war camp at Cabanatuan during World War II.  The memorial has been maintained by the American Battle Grounds Commission since 1989.  Prior to this, it was maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission. The Dresden Panometer is an attraction in Dresden, Germany.  It is a venue displaying one of two panoramic paintings of Austrian-born artist Yadegar Asisi inside a former gasometer, accompanied by an exhibition.  One of the two panoramas, "Baroque Dresden" depicts Dresden as it might have appeared in 1756, the other, "Dresden 1945" shows the city after it was destroyed during World War II.  The Panometer was created in 2006 by Asisi, who coined the name as a portmanteau of "panorama" and "gasometer".  In 2003 he had opened a Panometer in Leipzig. Stalag IV-A Elsterhorst was a World War II German Army prisoner-of-war camp located south of the village of Elsterhorst (now Nardt), near Hoyerswerda in Saxony, 44 km north-east of Dresden (this should not however be confused with Stalag IV-A Hohnstein, which was located 20 miles ENE of Dresden). Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 anti-war/sci fi film based on Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name about a writer who tells a story in random order of how he was a soldier in World War II and was abducted by aliens.  The screenplay is by Stephen Geller and the film was directed by George Roy Hill.  It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and Perry King.  The scenes set in Dresden were filmed in Prague.  The other scenes were filmed in Minnesota. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about the World War II experiences and journeys through time of Billy Pilgrim, from his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant, to postwar and early years.  It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work.  A central event is Pilgrim's surviving the Allies' firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner-of-war.  This was an event in Vonnegut's own life, and the novel is considered semi-autobiographical. So It Goes was a British TV music show presented by Tony Wilson on Granada Television between 1976 and 1977.  It is most famous for showcasing the then burgeoning punk rock movement.  It was named partially in reference to Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Slaughterhouse-Five". Gregory D. Sumner is a professor of History at University of Detroit Mercy and the author of the books "Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle," "Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels, and Detroit in World War II. Kurt Vonnegut Sr. (November 24, 1884 – October 1, 1957) was an American architect and architectural lecturer active in early- to mid-twentieth-century Indianapolis, Indiana.  A member of the American Institute of Architects, he was partner in the firms of Vonnegut & Bohn, Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller, and Vonnegut, Wright, and Yeager.  He designed several churches, banks, and became the inhouse architect for Indiana Bell and Hooks Drug stores (prior to World War II), practicing extensively in the Art Deco style.  He was the father of chemist Bernard Vonnegut and author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Answer: Slaughterhouse-Five