Aye great books both of them.I remember reading about that in a biography on David Niven. A taxi driver recalled David Niven asking him to turn around and return to the airport though they had travelled a fair way as he had forgotten to tip the porter.
The writer said he had a hard job finding anything negative about him to balance things up. He had to setyle for a family member telling himmthat Niven could be a bit unpleasant if he drank a lot of gin. But when someone mentioned it to him he stopped drinking it.
During the war he was asked to stay in the USA to carry on making propoganda films but returned and joined up as he said he wouldn't be able to look people in the eye after the war otherwise. (That fine actor Leslie Howard said the same and lost his life).
If you have never read them, The Moon's A Balloon and Bring On The Empty Horses are worth reading if you feel like being cheered up.
Pacific for specific gets right on my tit end.

