Doctors at War

Ellen Hampton is the author of Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the WWII Front. She has a doctorate in history from L'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris and is a former lecturer at Sciences Po in Reims and the Universite de Paris II-Pantheon. Patrice Debre is professor emeritus of immunology at Sorbonne University in Paris and a member of the French National Academy of Medicine. His grandfather Robert Debre worked as a physician in France and coordinated resistance efforts during the Occupation.

"Hampton focuses on the actions of a group of French doctors (and a handful of foreign doctors) during the Nazi occupation of France. As shown by this narrative, medical professionals had to make fateful decisions that, in some cases, led them into active resistance, including shielding their Jewish colleagues, providing treatment to Resistance fighters and downed Allied pilots, and providing medical care and certifications of health status to victims of Nazi terror. . . . This book is well researched and engagingly written, and will be of interest to general readers as well as specialists."--CHOICE "Doctors at War is a fascinating, suspenseful account of French Resistance physicians who braved their lives for their country and their integrity, as well as the story of their colleagues who became reluctant or enthusiastic collaborators. Richly researched using letters, archives, and personal accounts of the period, this gripping story shows how German officers commandeered hospitals as some French doctors were arrested and deported to concentration camps."--Anne-Marie O'Connor, author of The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer