This is indeed one of my older reviews, one that I originally wrote five years ago. It's a translation of the book in the first link, though I believe they edited it down to conform to the requirements of the series in which it was published.

Thanks! That's what I suspected, based on the length -- editing down an almost 1000 page book to roughly a quarter that length in transposing it into another language would hardly deserve to be called a "translation" -- it would be more like an extended summary ... Though it's been known to have been done; BrokenTune recently came across a biography of Camus that, in its English version, was roughly only half the length of the original French -- the translator had left out all the content that he'd decided was of no interest to his English speaking readers.