Just noticed that Mark's 2012 edition of this Raff biography can be previewed at Google here (https://books.google.com/books?id=juySAwAAQBAJ).
Not that I'm surprised that it is so, but some -really- interesting material, well-footnoted, here... Thumbs-up.
Thanks Eric. The heavy lifting of the superb translation is Alan's work of course, whilst the footnotes are a joint effort. Sample it on Google Books by all means - then buy it here: www.raff.org/shop (http://www.raff.org/shop). ;)
I bought it and it comes highly recommended. I read it in a week although I didn't go through every footnote.
Tom :)