Gerald Steinacher's revealing study of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) constitutes an important addition to our understanding of the successes and failings of the world's preeminent humanitarian organization during World War II. The work covers a critical period in the ICRC's history as the organization faced an existential challenge related to its actions and inactions during the war, including the ICRC's silence during the Holocaust, increased competition for the reins of power from national Red Cross committees, and a desperate effort to reclaim its humanitarian reputation after 1944. Despite the ICRC's early knowledge of Nazi mass murder, the leadership and committee as whole, with some dissenting voices, pursued a pragmatic political course governed by realist policy considerations and made a conscious decision not to publicly expose or condemn Nazi genocide in a pivotal meeting in October 1942.