Lindsey Fitzharris' new book tells the true story of Harold Gillies, a British surgeon whose team worked to reconstruct the faces of some of the 280,000 men who suffered facial trauma during WWI.

THE FACEMAKER A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I By Lindsey Fitzharris Illustrated. 315 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30. The more disembodied our ...

Book club: “The Facemaker” by Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story of plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who helped the military in World War I.

Lindsey Fitzharris' 'The Facemaker' tracks the development of plastic surgery to World War I, when weapons of war achieved a new destructive power.

Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story Dr. Harold Gillies, a military surgeon who spent WWI reconstructing the faces of soldiers and sailors who'd suffered horrific facial injuries.

Lindsey Fitzharris' new book tells the true story of Harold Gillies, a British surgeon whose team worked to reconstruct the faces of some of the 280,000 men who suffered facial trauma during WWI.

June 14, 2022 Q&A with Lindsey Fitzharris. Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris, author of The Facemaker, talked about the life and career of Dr. Harold Gillies, a New … ...

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The Facemaker, by Lindsey Fitzharris Allen Lane, £20. OFTEN after war, comes technical advance for peacetime: but afterwards, not before, as all funded effort is in the technology of killing. World ...

In war, amputees might be celebrated as heroes. But those with damaged faces endure a far different reception. They “often caused feelings of revulsion and disgust,” says medical historian and ...

The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris, published by Allen Lane, is on sale in the UK for £20. You can buy it here.