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McIndoe's Army: The Story of the Guinea Pig Club and Its Indomitable Members [Hardcover]

Edward Bishop (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Grub Street; 2nd Revised edition edition (28 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1902304934
  • ISBN-13: 978-1902304939
  • Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 802,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"More exclusive than Boodle's, Buck's, Whites and the Royal Yacht Squadron rolled into one". This was how Sir Archibald McIndoe, the celebrated plastic surgeon, described The Guinea Pig Club, a unique body of greviously burnt, often seriously disfigured and handicapped Allied airmen treated by McIndoe's team at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. In the Guinea Pig Club's 60th anniversary year the author revises and expands his account of its members' courage, heroism and self generated social and welfare activities around the world since McIndoe's earliest wartime patients founded the Club. He tells how it grew into so much more than a hospital ward Grogging Club in which airmen who had escaped from blazing, exploding and crippled bombers and fighters, drowned their immediate inhibitions. Though not himself a Guinea Pig the author commands the same delicate balance between candour and sympathy, horror and humour which has contributed greatly to the success of the Club and its survival into the new Millennium.

About the Author

Edward Bishop served in the Royal Navy, including the FAA, during WW2, before becoming a staff writer with SEAC. He later joined Kemsley newspapers and has mingled journalism, authorship, radio and tv assignments. He has worked for The Daily Telegraph, The Financial Times and the Daily Mail and is a founder director of the de Havilland Museum Trust.

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5.0 out of 5 stars War as it is Before, During and Long, Long, After...., 7 Dec 2001
This review is from: McIndoe's Army: The Story of the Guinea Pig Club and Its Indomitable Members (Hardcover)
Young men, barely out of their teens thrust into war, and mutilated (fried or mashed to use Guinea Pig Club terminology)beyond recognition were sent to the Queen Victoria Hospital (affectionately known as the 'Sty') where Archie McIndoe's surgical team not only rebuilt their bodies, but went on to help rebuild their lives and protect them against the bureaucratic onslaught of successive pensions boards in the years that followed. Edward Bishop presents this unique story of their survival from hell and rebirth into society in a manner that affords these men a dignified respect and recognition. At the conclusion, I felt I wanted to buy them all a pint, and I think any other reader would too, such is the spirit of these men, many of whom are still with us today.

No historical account of World War Two could ever be as close to reality as this, because this is the story of McIndoe's Army - the Guinea Pig Club.

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