There were lots of praise for this book on the cover and many quotations from different sources how good this book was. You will follow a submarine-expert on his mission to the Gulf. This isn't a warnovel about the war, more the thoughts about all and nothing inside the brain of a man in a gas mask. With violent and peculiar fellow soldiers on the ship, there is never a bored moment, and through the lens of his videocamera he captures many weird things. The world appears much more real in the video camera, and therefore he drags it around with him. The book is ok, with some boring passages, but certainly has its highlights....although I would probably dig into Joseph Hellers "Catch 22" or any other more well-known humorous war novel.