In Love and War: Nursing Heroes

In the aftermath of the Battle of Britain, nurses in the burns ward of the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex, began caring for aircrew with horrific and disfiguring facial burns. The ward was under the direction of pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe, who established revolutionary new surgical and therapeutic treatments. His patients banded together to form the Guinea Pig Club. Their experiences, and McIndoe's trailblazing work, created a company of heroes. The surg...