{"title":"DUMMY Hertfordshire History","description":"\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6525\/8945\/files\/IMG_2695.jpg?v=1752677647\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"236\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe County of Hertfordshire (Where Ware is!) was founded in the Norse–Saxon wars of the 9th century, and developed through commerce serving London. 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The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero's welcome they deserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the astonishing story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces - and the identities - of a brutalized generation. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction in Sidcup, south-east England. 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