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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.
Lindsey Fitzharris's biography of Harold Gillies, who became the world's pre-eminent specialist in plastic surgery during the first world war, depicts a forward-thinking, gifted man