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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Henry Dunant; Henry Dunant; Henry Dunant |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Caroline Moorehead |
ISBN: | 0786706090 9780786706099 |
OCLC Number: | 41143864 |
Description: | xxxi, 780 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Tutti Fratelli -- Inhumanity under another name -- True metal and tinkling brass -- Stone heaps full of snakes -- Rebels, barbarians and perjurers -- American angels of mercy -- The little cushion of Europe -- One of us, heart and soul -- The greatest mother in the world -- The amiable gentlemen of Geneva -- The feet of little angels -- Where a savage institution is master -- New and old instruments of destruction -- Keep the fires burning under those old gentlemen -- Piercing the darkness -- Surviving the cold winter -- One reference to God -- Affairs of the heart -- Men of the Red Cross -- La maison -- The landscape of war. |
Responsibility: | Caroline Moorehead. |
Abstract:
Chronicles the history of the Red Cross from its nineteenth-century origins through the moral dilemmas it has faced in the late twentieth century.
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