Eve Curie Labouisse is the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, the discoverers of radium and Nobel Prize winners. After her mother died in 1934, Eve Curie researched and wrote the internationally known and best selling book, Madame Curie. She later wrote Journey Among Warriors, a chronicle of her travel to the fronts of World War II.

After the defeat of France in 1940,  Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire moved to England and worked for the Allied and Free French causes during