Continuing our look at WW2 biographies, Le Grande Circue, or The Big Show as we Limeys would say, is an all-time classic and yet another must-read memoir for anyone with a passion for WW2 aviation.
The Big Show is the wartime memoir of Pierre Henri Clostermann, D.S.O and D.F.C and Bar, himself an aeronautical engineer and son of a French diplomat who joined the Free French Forces in 1941 as a fighter pilot before being seconded to the RAF, where he flew Spitfires, Typhoons and finally Tempests.
Clostermann was credited with 33 aerial victories and The Big Show is a genuine page turner. There’s no let-up in the action as France’s highest-scoring pilot of WW2 flicks from one enthralling aerial encounter to the next.
