Ellen Hampton is the author of Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the WWII Front. She has a doctorate in history from L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and is a former lecturer at Sciences Po in Reims and the Université de Paris II-Panthéon.

Patrice Debré is professor emeritus of immunology at Sorbonne University in Paris and a member of the French National Academy of Medicine. His grandfather Robert Debré worked as a physician in France and coordinated resistance efforts during the Occupation.