"Emmanuel Guibert has given us a great many graphic novels for readers young and old, among them the Sardine in Outer Space series and The Professor's Daughter with Joann Sfar. In 1994, a chance encounter with an American World War II veteran named Alan Cope marked the beginning of an abiding friendship and the birth of a great biographical epic - of which Alan's War is the first installment. Alan's Youth is intended to follow it. In the meantime, Guibert produced another biography called The Photographer..." -fra omslaget