The facemaker a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I
"From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more w...
Main Author: | Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- (Author) |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2022.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: "An unlovely object"
- The ballerina's rump
- The silver ghost
- Special duty
- A strange new art
- The chamber of horrors
- The mirrorless ward
- Tin noses and steel hearts
- The miracle workers
- The boys on blue benches
- Percy
- Heroic failures
- Against all odds
- All that glitters
- Epilogue: Cutting a path.