Airborne 44 - S il faut survivre, Jarbinet

In French, 56 color pages, hardcover,.  24 x 1 x 32.1 cm. Casterman, April 2014. Good condition.

December 1944. While in the Ardennes, cornered Nazi Germany has just launched a spectacular counteroffensive, all available planes are requisitioned to go to the site to support the hard-fought Allied troops. Including the civil aircraft of the Air Transport Auxiliary, a British organization that has the particularity of integrating female pilots. It is one of those transport operations between England and Belgium that young Tessa, an experienced American pilot and long committed to this support unit, is carrying out. But this time, she's unlucky. After an aerial duel, the young woman makes an emergency landing in the forest, just behind the German lines. Near Bastogne, where the fighting is most intense... There is only one way to try to rescue her: parachute a rescue command to the site. A mission that will be taken over by Sebastian Leder and Tom De Witt. Both are considered elite scouts. But they also have in common the fact that they have known Tessa well since their youth, back in America...