Dunant's Dream; War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross by Moorehead, Caroline

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers [0-7867-0609-0] 1999. (Hardcover) 780pp. Very good plus in fine dust jacket. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. The spine is lightly edgeworn at the top and bottom, the bottom edge has a red remainder mark, and there is a previous owner's blind stamp on the front free endpaper. "In the summer of 1859, after the battle of Solferino in northern Italy, a young Swiss entrepreneur named Henri Dunant was so sickened by seeing the wounded, dead, and maimed that he determined to found an international humanitarian organization to regulate the conduct of warfare and provide frontline medical care for combat casualities". Book about Henri Dunant. Time Period 19th Century. Locale: Switzerland. (Miltary, Medical Care, Military History, Red Cross, Warfare).