A Memory of Solferino
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
2881450067
ISBN 13
9782881450068
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1986
Publisher
International Committee of the Red Cross, Switzerland
Pages
147
Subject
Red Cross and Red Crescent. Solferino, Battle of, Solferino, Italy, 1859.
Abstract
Who better than Henry Dunant to shake the reader with a gripping account of the suffering of the thousands of wounded soldiers left unattended after the battle of Solferino? In this book, Dunant succeeds in taking the vital step between that vision of devastation and an impassioned appeal on behalf of the victims of combat.
The horrors witnessed by Dunant after the battle of Solferino on 24th June 1859 and his ensuing humanitarian appeal are at the origin of the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement, which today comprises 186 national societies with millions of members, as well as the two international bodies-the ICRC and the international Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
The horrors witnessed by Dunant after the battle of Solferino on 24th June 1859 and his ensuing humanitarian appeal are at the origin of the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement, which today comprises 186 national societies with millions of members, as well as the two international bodies-the ICRC and the international Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Description
The horrors witnessed by Dunant after the battle of Solferino on June 24 1859 and his humanitarian appeal are the origins of the Red Cross movment. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
