Humanitarians at war
the red cross in the shadow of the Holocaust
- ISBN: 9780198704935
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2017
- Lugar de la edición: New York. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 330
- Idiomas: Inglés
How the International Committee of the Red Cross emerged triumphant from the dark days of World War II, to forge a new identity and a new role in the post, 1945 world. The intriguing and remarkable story of one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and most revered aid institutions, and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the Nazis. From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, a tale encompassing the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battles with Communist critics on the eve of the Cold War