The year was 1864. Across the blood-soaked fields of Solferino, the cries of the wounded had finally reached the ears of those with the power to change the architecture of war. Henry Dunant, a Swiss businessman who had witnessed the carnage, sparked a movement that would culminate in the first Geneva Convention—a fragile, revolutionary document that dared to suggest that even in the chaos of battle, humanity must have a sanctuary.
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