Dunants Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross

The Red Cross was the inspiration -- the dream -- of Henri Dunant, a Swiss businessman appalled by the butchery & lack of medical care for injured soldiers at the battle of Solferino in 1859. He created an internat. org. which was to alter the fate of all those wounded in every war. Moorehead is the first writer to be granted unrestricted access to the extensive Red Cross archives in Geneva. Here she traces the origins of the org., & uncovers some startling truths about the Red Cross & its relationship with some of the most horrific & barbaric political regimes of the 20th cent. A moving & authoritative history of the politics of conflict by an author of real distinction which sheds light not just on the Red Cross but on the nature of humanity itself.Ó Illustrations