Lindsey Fitzharris on the pioneering facial reconstruction surgeon who remade the faces of Great War veterans
James Thornton Harris is editor of the History News Network. For more information, see www.JamesThorntonHarris.com. Today in northeastern France, cemeteries and monuments scattered across the green, rolling landscape honor the Allied dead of World War I, but the suffering of the wounded, especially those with cruelly disfigured faces, has often been ignored or discreetly concealed. …