FACEMAKER (PB)

At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, pioneering surgeon Harold Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. Meticulously researched and grippingly told, this book places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the poignant stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired.