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The remarkable and intriguing story of how the International Committee of the Red Cross, one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations, ultimately emerged triumphant from the dark days of World War II, escaping its highly ambiguous wartime record to re-affirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs and play a formative role in rewriting the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

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-A knowledgeable, stringent return to the record and scrutiny of 'good neutrality.'---Kirkus

A knowledgeable, stringent return to the record and scrutiny of 'good neutrality.' --<em>Kirkus</em>

A knowledgeable, stringent return to the record and scrutiny of 'good neutrality.' --Kirkus

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Gerald Steinacher is an Associate Professor of History and the Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of numerous publications on German and Italian twentieth-century history, most recently Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice (2010), also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded a National Jewish Book Award by the Jewish Book Council in 2011.

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