John Hutchinson
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A character in an Evelyn Waugh novel once remarked that There’s nothing wrong with warexcept the fighting.” In Champions of Charity, John Hutchinson argues that while they set out with a vision to make war more humane, the world’s Red Cross organizations soon became enthusiastic promoters of militarism and sacrifice in time of war.The mass armies of the nineteenth century were stalked by disease and slaughtered...