“By combining and comparing the work done in Spain with what was done in China, the author has brought a new perspective to the issue of medical aid and the activities of many Americans in the late 1930s and into World War II. The comparison is appropriate and well handled. Indeed, this duality is what makes this book so original and insightful."—Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia, author of American Images of China, 1931–1949
“This is an important study of humanitarianism and U.S. foreign relations.”—Michelle Tusan, University of Nevada–Las Vegas, author of Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East