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Comics are an ideal medium for documentary, both accessible and open to experimentation. Le Bras de fer, an enhanced digital fiction supported by the Établissement de communication et de production audiovisuelle de la Défense (ECPAD), uses the medium to explore the sometimes tumultuous relationship between Churchill, Roosevelt and De Gaulle, from a very particular point of view.
Readers will follow Edward Murton's investigation from London to Algiers, on the Sicilian and Italian fronts. As the political and military news unfolds, the American war reporter lifts a corner of the veil on the relations between de Gaulle, Churchill and Roosevelt, an “arm wrestling match” on which the fate of liberated France will depend. Keeping out of the fighting, Edward tries to bypass his hierarchy to get closer to the front. Between censorship and propaganda, press briefings and anonymous informers, the disillusioned idealist comes face to face with the pretenses of power.
Le Bras de fer blends historical reality and fiction, to capture the atmosphere of an era and the questions raised by its contemporaries.
