History is responsible for feelings, good and bad, such as treason, sincerity, injustice, infidelity, love and, beyond everything else, friendship forever.
This whole atmosphere of frank and serene appearance, which revolves around the passion for aviation by three teenage friends: Max (Polish-born Jew), Hanna and Werner (both of German origin), started in 1930 and takes place on a prepared base in the Second World War and Nazi youth.
Max, who is the main character of this first volume, emigrated to the United States with his father; we find adult on a Corsair in 1944. And by a flashback, the author traces its history to that point ...
On the whole, for me the drawings are beautiful, and the story appears consistent, just, I'm a little disappointed by the lack of richness of dialogues; it's true, these whole plates of drawings - without any bubble - are perfect and truly immerse us in action, however, a BD read in less than twenty minutes, I think, compared to other similar and the same number of pages, it is expensive for the little reading pleasure, hence my star less. And it is all the more that this story is divided into three volumes, and the author leaves us hungry, waiting for the second volume ...
For the lucky owners of the first edition, there, in the late album, eight pages of pretty blue sketches of three children and a questionnaire to Yann - such an interview - in which he explains why the how of the story, the characters and the creation of his work.
So, in conclusion I would say that it is a beautiful comic, readable and soft to the touch, with good old smell of ink and paper mixture; one might almost say, by its quality of design - paper thickness, heaviness of coverage and sewing the pages - it's a collector's item!