8 October 2012

The Tin Noses Shop

Wounded tommies facetiously called it "The Tin Noses Shop." Its proper name was the "Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department"; either way, it represented one of the many acts of desperate improvisation borne of the Great War, which had overwhelmed all conventional strategies for dealing with trauma to body, mind and soul...L

ink here and here. (second one in French)





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