“Our job is neither to please nor to harm, but to probe the wound with our pen.”
Albert Londres

One laureate, one report, one graphic novel. The idea is to breathe new life into the texts of the winners of the most prestigious French-language journalism prize: the Albert Londres Prize, by using original and contemporary graphic novels.

This is an opportunity to revisit legendary reports—often inaccessible to the general public—from the prize: from the rise of Nazism to the rise of jihadism, including conflicts in Lebanon, Ireland, and Korea. To speak of the heirs of Albert Londres is to recount the evolution of the profession of the war correspondent and offer the reader a raw, unfiltered view of 20th-century history through a unique and demanding lens.

For his first experience as a war correspondent, Henri de Turenne spent eight months covering the front lines of a now-forgotten and deadly conflict against the backdrop of the Cold War: the Korean War.

In the first few weeks, he witnessed the American and South Korean rout at the hands of the North Koreans, supported by the Russians, all the way to the Pusan ​​stronghold where, cornered, the Americans attempted to launch their counter-offensive. Then came the grand and terrifying landing of the GIs in Incheon Bay near Seoul, which changed the course of the war before the frantic race to capture Pyongyang in the North, a race that would ultimately lead to the far reaches of the country in Manchuria, on the border with China.