Henry Dunant
H. Dunant0361/002 11.2010 2,000

This is a truly poignant book.

A MEMORY OF SOLFERINO

The horrors witnessed by Dunant
after the battle of Solferino on
24 June 1859 and his ensuing
humanitarian appeal are at theorigin of the Red Cross/Red Crescent
Movement, which today comprises
186 National Societies with millionsof members, as well as the twointernational bodies – the ICRC andthe International Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

ICRC

Who better than Henry Dunant
to shake the reader with agripping account of the sufferingof the thousands of woundedsoldiers left untended after thebattle of Solferino? In this work,Dunant succeeds in taking thevital step between that vision ofdevastation and an impassioned
appeal on behalf of the victimsof combat.

A MEMORY
OF SOLFERINO

Mission

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is
an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose
exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives anddignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations ofviolence and to provide them with assistance. The ICRC
also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting andstrengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarianprinciples. Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin ofthe Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross
and Red Crescent Movement. It directs and coordinates theinternational activities conducted by the Movement in armed
conflicts and other situations of violence.

HENRY DUNANT

A MEMORY
OF SOLFERINO

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is
an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose
exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives anddignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations ofviolence and to provide them with assistance. The ICRC
also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting andstrengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarianprinciples. Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin ofthe Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross
and Red Crescent Movement. It directs and coordinates theinternational activities conducted by the Movement in armed
conflicts and other situations of violence.

Henry Dunant
H. Dunant0361/002 11.2010 2,000

This is a truly poignant book.

A MEMORY OF SOLFERINO

The horrors witnessed by Dunant
after the battle of Solferino on
24 June 1859 and his ensuing
humanitarian appeal are at theorigin of the Red Cross/Red CrescentMovement, which today comprises
186 National Societies with millionsof members, as well as the twointernational bodies – the ICRC andthe International Federation of RedCross and Red Crescent Societies.

ICRC

Who better than Henry Dunant
to shake the reader with agripping account of the sufferingof the thousands of woundedsoldiers left untended after thebattle of Solferino? In this work,
Dunant succeeds in taking thevital step between that vision ofdevastation and an impassioned
appeal on behalf of the victimsof combat.

A MEMORY
OF SOLFERINO