McIndoe's Army
The Story of the Guinea Pig Club and Its Indomitable Members
Seiten
2001
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2nd Revised edition
Grub Street Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-902304-93-9 (ISBN)
Grub Street Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-902304-93-9 (ISBN)
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Completely rewritten, "McIndoe's Army" celebrates the 60th anniversary of the founding of the advanced plastic surgery unit at the Queen Victoria Hospital. It was here that badly burned airmen were treated and cared for during World War Two.
"More exclusive than Boodle's, Buck's, Whites and the Royal Yacht Squadron rolled into one". This was how Sir Archibald McIndoe, the celebrated plastic surgeon, described The Guinea Pig Club, a unique body of greviously burnt, often seriously disfigured and handicapped Allied airmen treated by McIndoe's team at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. In the Guinea Pig Club's 60th anniversary year the author revises and expands his account of its members' courage, heroism and self generated social and welfare activities around the world since McIndoe's earliest wartime patients founded the Club. He tells how it grew into so much more than a hospital ward Grogging Club in which airmen who had escaped from blazing, exploding and crippled bombers and fighters, drowned their immediate inhibitions. Though not himself a Guinea Pig the author commands the same delicate balance between candour and sympathy, horror and humour which has contributed greatly to the success of the Club and its survival into the new Millennium.
"More exclusive than Boodle's, Buck's, Whites and the Royal Yacht Squadron rolled into one". This was how Sir Archibald McIndoe, the celebrated plastic surgeon, described The Guinea Pig Club, a unique body of greviously burnt, often seriously disfigured and handicapped Allied airmen treated by McIndoe's team at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. In the Guinea Pig Club's 60th anniversary year the author revises and expands his account of its members' courage, heroism and self generated social and welfare activities around the world since McIndoe's earliest wartime patients founded the Club. He tells how it grew into so much more than a hospital ward Grogging Club in which airmen who had escaped from blazing, exploding and crippled bombers and fighters, drowned their immediate inhibitions. Though not himself a Guinea Pig the author commands the same delicate balance between candour and sympathy, horror and humour which has contributed greatly to the success of the Club and its survival into the new Millennium.
Edward Bishop served in the Royal Navy, including the FAA, during WW2, before becoming a staff writer with SEAC. He later joined Kemsley newspapers and has mingled journalism, authorship, radio and tv assignments. He has worked for The Daily Telegraph, The Financial Times and the Daily Mail and is a founder director of the de Havilland Museum Trust.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.9.2001 |
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| Überarbeitung | Edward Bishop |
| Zusatzinfo | 50 b&w photographs |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 374 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen | |
| Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Ästhetische und Plastische Chirurgie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-902304-93-4 / 1902304934 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-902304-93-9 / 9781902304939 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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