La Place de la Concorde Suisse
by McPhee, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00008159
- Title
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux (1984)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
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