Story of the Red Cross

By Clara Barton

Book Overview

" ...] To me it seemed a hard sentence that our physicians imposed. I had grown to love the country we had so toiled for, and did not want to leave it. Its very woes had made it dear to me. It had quiet once more, and a peace that was not all a peace. It had its early soldier homes, its fast-filling cemeteries, and the tender memory of a martyred President resting over us like a pall. These had come to seem like a heritage to me, and in my weakness I clung to them. Still, the order was obeyed and I went. Then followed travels in strange and foreign lands, other wars, illness and suffering of my own, until ...]."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150534557X
• ISBN13: 9781505345575
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"