At its best,
Company Man hums from one piece to the next, a harmless, good - natured, often silly spoof with a few cutting barbs and a comic showman's love of the well - executed gag.
In a contained capsule measuring roughly 10» by 150», with one toilet for fifty
men and humour in the spread of crabs in close
company, Das Boot is a unique war journal in that it locates the true horror of conflict in the low - level
hum of the roiling anticipation of it.