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La Place de la Concorde Suisse Hardcover - 1984

by John McPhee


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La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Israelis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model.

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La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Israelis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model.

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First published in 1984 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux with only 200 numbered copies available. This edition is hardcover with grey cloth covered boards and the spine is stamped in black. 


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  • Title La Place de la Concorde Suisse
  • Author John McPhee
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Date 1984
  • ISBN 9780374182410 / 0374182418
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 6.18 x 0.86 in (21.84 x 15.70 x 2.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Switzerland, Neutrality - Switzerland
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83027466
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.033

About the author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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