Dunant's dream: war, Switzerland, and the history of the Red Cross

Chronicles the history of the Red Cross from its nineteenth-century origins through the moral dilemmas it has faced in the late twentieth century.

  • OCLC #: 41143864
  • ISBN #:
    • 0786706090
    • 9780786706099
  • Call #: HV580.S9M66 1999
  • Publisher: New York : Carroll & Graf Pub., 1999.
  • Edition:
    • 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
  • Physical 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.