Joe Haldeman "The Forever War"

This is yet another attempt by me to plumb the depths of the writing out there by looking for previous award winners I never read.  Joe Haldeman won a Hugo and a Nebula for this masterpiece and I enjoyed it thoroughly.  This writer actually reminds me of Heinlein at his best, which is no faint praise considering I host the Robert Anson Heinlein Memorial Library in my very own house.  The book is classic science fiction that is not at all dated and still totally enjoyable to read, and it has a point.  It is of course about war.  I think judging by the dates of publication it was strongly influenced by thinking on the Vietnam war, but it still makes you think even now.
The novel traces the path of a soldier, Private Mandella, through the course of a war with aliens, which he is fortunate enough to survive.  The war is fought in space and is at the whim of the realities of the faster than light travel and propulsion systems, such that a whole lot of time passes during a decade of subjective living by the protagonist.  It ties together a changing society and a changing war in an interweaving tapestry of prose that is difficult to put down.  I will definitely keep an eye out for more of his works, this was fantastic and gets a recommendation.
Interesting to some perhaps is the way in which our society is different to the imagined one of Haldeman's universe.  I do not think any sci fi writer predicted the effect of easy information exchange on such large things as war.  It may be hard for some to appreciate, but it is actually pretty amazing that government and military institutions find it so hard nowadays to hide the nasty parts of war, like Abu Graib in Iraq.  Back in the day, WWII, governments fought wars with misinformation that would be next to impossible to do today, it's impossible to stop connected people talking, and stupid people always slip up.  (By the way, stupid people are actually everywhere, so it is an axiom that that means they will screw up, just wait.)
I digress shamefully, thank you Joe for a fine read that is equally thought provoking due to what it hit and what it missed.