Beautiful art! The colors are rich, vibrant, ominous, realistic; the planes are beautifully rendered, looking as if you could feel them (it's not just the planes; there's a vodka bottle on p. 42 that's almost photo-realistic), and the dogfights are drawn so you can actually see the strategy and follow the action. A peeve of mine is WW I and II aerial combat comics that don't portray the combat well. I want to see strategies and maneuvers unique to sky battles, and Hugault certainly delivers. He includes a nice page of each planes stats at the end, with full body color drawing. Very nice! I've always been fascinated with WWI and II aircraft, and this album is as detailed and informative about them as Garth Ennis' Johnny Red comics (I don't know if that's his own addition or was also done in the original comic strips).
The four stories are good, too. Engaging and moving without being too sentimental. The first story is of a Kamikaze pilot, another story is about a German, so we get more than the usual (in American comics, at least) English and American perspectives. I bought this for the art, not expecting good ystories, too, and was pleasantly surprised.