The history of the Guinea Pig Club--the band of airmen who were seriously burned in airplane fires in the Second World War--and the maverick surgeon Archibald McIndoe, operating at a small hospital in East Grinstead in the south of England, who set up a revolutionary new treatment regime.
Originally published as: The reconstruction of warriors : Archibald McIndoe, the Royal Air Force and the Guinea Pig Club. London : Greenhill Books, 2004. With new introductory material and a new foreword by HRH Prince Harry.