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The Reconstruction of Warriors: Archibald McIndoe, the Royal Air Force and the Guinea Pig Club

By Guinea Pig Club.;Mayhew , Emily R.;McIndoe , Archibald Hector

Book information

Publisher
Frontline Books
ISBN
9781848325845, 9781783375370, 9781844687688, 9781844687695, 1848325843
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
7 MB (7358800 bytes)
Pages
239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

The history of the Guinea Pig Club, the band of airmen who were seriously burned in airplane fires, is a truly inspiring, spine-tingling tale. Plastic surgery was in its infancy before the Second World War. The most rudimentary techniques were only known to a few surgeons worldwide. The Allies were tremendously fortunate in having the maverick surgeon Archibald McIndoe – nicknamed ‘the Boss’ or ‘the Maestro’ – operating at a small hospital in East Grinstead in the south of England.

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