Edition |
First Carroll and Graf edition. |
Description |
xxxi, 780 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-743) and index. |
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. |
Summary |
Chronicles the history of the Red Cross from its nineteenth-century origins through the moral dilemmas it has faced in the late twentieth century. |
Subject |
Red Cross and Red Crescent -- Switzerland -- History.
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Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz -- History.
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Dunant, Henry, 1828-1910.
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Dunant, Henry, 1828-1910.
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Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz.
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International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Voluntary Health Agencies -- history.
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ISBN |
0786706090 |
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9780786706099 |
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