Oh, well I love the book too, and I've read it a few times, but I don't really know what war or time period it's supposed to be. I'm not very good with details like that, I kind of skip over things I don't care about and stick with the parts I like, in books and movies. lol I guess I'm a little lazy that way.
As for the 80's, I didn't live in the US for most of it, I only know the last couple of years of it, and they were ok. What I know is really in retrospect from watching A LOT of TV. XD
Some good music, and a few really good movies like The Breakfast Club, Teen Witch, and Dirty Dancing. IDK, I guess it was a fun decade. I'm more into the 90's cuz that's my teen years that really matter and things influenced me more. That's my opinion anyway. If you wanna know about the 90's...