The Resource Guide: Books | Rules of War | American Red Cross includes an exhaustive list of books.
A Memory of Solferino
The book that launched both the Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions.
- Author: Henry Dunant, 1862.
- Source: International Committee of the Red Cross
- Grade level: high school – adult
Discover the ICRC
Discover the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- Source: International Committee of the Red Cross, 2007
- Grade level: high school – adult
War Child: A Child Soldier’s Story
Memoir of a Sudanese boy conscripted into the army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, who fought through two separate civil wars for nearly a decade.
- Author: Emmanuel Jal and Megan Davies
- Source: St. Martin’s Press Red Cross, 2009
- Grade level: high school – adult
The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War
An extremely readable account based on case studies taken from actual events.
- Author: Gary D. Solis
- Source: Cambridge University Press, 2010
- Grade level: high school – adult
Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know
A reference book of articles and photographs that define IHL. Lesson plans are available to accompany the book.
- Author: Roy Gutman, 2007
- Publisher: Norton
- Grade Level: high school – adult
- Subject Area: social studies, current events
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