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A hundred years since the publication of “A Memory of Solferino”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
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What do we find at the origin of the work which does most honour to mankind, at the roots of a movement which has been spread across the world for the past hundred years? There is of course one man, Henry Dunant, but there is also a book. A slight volume which was soon to stir the hearts and consciences of Europe from end to end, by its fluent style, its stark reality and its warmhearted appeal. This was A Memory of Solferino.
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- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 2 , Issue 20 , November 1962 , pp. 575 - 580
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1962
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page 576 note 1 Translation: History of the origins of the Red Cross and the Geneva Convention.
page 576 note 2 Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms.2078, ff.6–7.
page 577 note 1 “By the well known firm of Fick of Geneva, successors throughout the ages of the famous Genevese house of Tournes.” (Note by Henry Dunant.)
page 577 note 2 See A Memory of Solferino, p. 6 Google Scholar, translation of the original edition.
page 578 note 1 Plate.
page 578 note 2 See A Memory of Solferino, p. 20 Google Scholar, translation of the original edition. In another letter dated November 17, Lecomte pointed out that if hospitals flew black flags, ambulances had red banners.