1984 is an incredible book. George Orwell has a great mind to predict such a future. 
Yes, the novel features a setting where people are victims of constant war and surveillance by the government
I had only read the book because a teacher assigned it but I would like to get into some of his other work. Are you familiar with any of it?
Another of his books is Animal Farm. But in 1984, the main character, named Winston, is employed to rewrite history
Oh I already like that just from the title. Does Winston succeed? 
Ultimately no, he is mentally brought to submission by the "Thought Police" for his thoughtcrimes of independent thinking
That's terrible. It's a shame that in this day and age there is a version of that same thought police.
and the regime of Big Brother. In the story, the Thinkpol conduct false-flag operations (e.g. The Brotherhood) to lure non-conformist members of the Party to expose themselves as politically subversive.
Orwell's concept of "thought policing" derived from the intellectual self-honesty shown by a person's "power of facing unpleasant facts"; thus, criticising the prevailing ideas of British society often placed Orwell in conflict with ideologues, people advocating "smelly little orthodoxies".
In "Nineteen Eighty-Four
expanded "It comes from the old George Orwell book "1984", there is a whole concept of government watching everything you do and it says “Big Brother is Watching You.” I thought about how that was what they predicted years ago. But, they didn’t predict that the people will get the technology and the people to do the watching, and that we will be able to watch over the government, watch each other, and will be exposing ourselves... and that makes us “Little Brother".