And an obituary in today's Guardian Online:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries...740876,00.html
The writer of the obituary is usually the paper's architecture correspondent.
I bought The Big Show when I was 14 and was gripped by it all through that summer's holiday. I think that was got me interested in the late-war period, the first time I'd really seen any account of the fighting in 1945.
Last year in France I bought Le Grand Cirque as a three-part "band dessiné" (graphic novel) — part of the series of aviation BDs "Biggles Presents…"!