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The Geneva Convention : the hidden origins of the Red Cross / Angela Bennett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stroud : Sutton Publishing, 2005.Description: xii, 236 p. [8 plates] , ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0750941472 (hbk.)
  • 9780750941471
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.77
LOC classification:
  • HV 568 B471g 2005
Contents:
Henry Dunant is shocked -- Enter Gustave Moynier and friends -- Dunant goes on tour -- A question of mules -- Europe initials a contract -- What a waste of lives -- The Felfela affair -- Dunant dusts himself off -- Moynier is all at sea -- Vive la neutralité! -- They seek him here, they seek him there! -- Moynier heaves a sigh of relief -- Dunant provokes the Russian bear -- A musical interlude -- Exit Moynier, centre stage -- Dunant wins a prize -- Epilogue : the situation today -- Appendices: A day in the life of a delegate of the ICRC -- The man in white through the eyes of Charles Dickens -- Chronology of the conventions and codifications of the laws of war -- Summary of the four Geneva conventions -- Henry Dunant's will -- US disregard of the third Geneva Convention at Guantanamo Bay.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HV 568 B471g 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 4 1 Available 00000114328

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Henry Dunant is shocked -- Enter Gustave Moynier and friends -- Dunant goes on tour -- A question of mules -- Europe initials a contract -- What a waste of lives -- The Felfela affair -- Dunant dusts himself off -- Moynier is all at sea -- Vive la neutralité! -- They seek him here, they seek him there! -- Moynier heaves a sigh of relief -- Dunant provokes the Russian bear -- A musical interlude -- Exit Moynier, centre stage -- Dunant wins a prize -- Epilogue : the situation today -- Appendices: A day in the life of a delegate of the ICRC -- The man in white through the eyes of Charles Dickens -- Chronology of the conventions and codifications of the laws of war -- Summary of the four Geneva conventions -- Henry Dunant's will -- US disregard of the third Geneva Convention at Guantanamo Bay.

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