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I am one of the elite of the Earth.  I have an IQ over 150; I have unusual health and strength and I have been conscripted to guard humanity against the Tauran menace on some lonely outpost of the galaxy.

The catch is - the only way to get back home is after a combat tour, which because of the collapsar jump could last a century or two.  That won't matter, I'll only be a few months older, but I won't recognise the Earth I left.  And, of course, not fitting in I won't want to stay there.  So I'll re-enlist.  And when I return as a veteran they won't even speak my language ...

The army is my home now.

But that's what they planned all along wasn't it ... wasn't it?

Joe Haldeman originally wrote this novel as an allegory of the Vietnam war, told through the eyes of a reluctant soldier caught up in a battle that never seemed to end, while the world he left behind changed drastically. However, it applies to all wars, in any time, and the book has never lost its timeliness.
Ryan Harvey