“A most interesting book, both from a World War I historical perspective and from the major changes in medicine that are so well outlined.” —British Journ

When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to

This book examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War.

A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Gr