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Speeches from other prime ministers. Who is the face maker referenced in the title of your new book . The face maker is Harold Gillies. This was a time when losing a limb made you a hero much losing a face made you a monster. He was not able to just mens these broken faces but to mend their broken spirits as well. Why do you think readers would be interested in Harold Gillies story . I think it is important that we reckon with the damage war has on the human body. Men who save life never gets the same recognition as those who destroy it. I hope my book goes a small way towards remedying that. ...

<p>As one battlefield nurse wrote home, &ldquo;the science of healing stood baffled before the science of destroying.&rdquo;<strong>&nbsp;</strong>Dr. Harold Gillies let the effort to catch up, arguably the only lasting &quot;victory&quot; of the Great War.&nbsp;</p>

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.

For many of the horribly disfigured young men who had been hit in the face after being pulled from the mud and squalor of the World War I trenches, their labels simply read 'GOK' - God Only Knows.