TY - BOOK AU - Byrski,Liz TI - In love and war: nursing heroes SN - 9781925161458 : U1 - 940.547541 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Fremantle, Western Australia PB - Fremantle Press KW - Byrski, Liz. KW - McIndoe, Archibald Hector KW - Guinea Pig Club KW - Airmen KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Wounds and injuries KW - Surgery, Plastic KW - World war, 1939-1945 KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Medical care KW - Nurses N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - In the aftermath of the Battle of Britain, airmen filled a small Sussex town where pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe established revolutionary surgical and therapeutic treatments. For the child Liz Byrski, growing up in a small Sussex town, the burnt faces of these airmen filled her nightmares. In her late sixties, Liz returned to make peace with her memories and to speak not only with the survivors - known as the Guinea Pig Club - but with the nurses who played a vital and unorthodox role in their treatment, sometimes at a significant personal cost ER -