Armed Camps by Kit Reed was originally published in 1969 and it is set in the near future (i.e. some unspecified time after 1969, but before 2002.) The story is an alternating first person point of view narrative told by Danny, a former soldier who is being horribly punished for some unknown (to the reader) crime, and Anne, a woman who experiences a major mental breakdown in the beginning of the book and spends the remainder of the story trying to put the pieces back together. In this vision of the future, the United States has been locked in a state of constant war for years (decades?) and this has taken a major toll on the country. Moral is very low among the public, the economic impacts of constant war seem to be gutting the country, and most young men who are able to fight are drafted, many never to return.