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.