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LA PLACE DE LA CONCORDE SUISSE
by McPhee, John
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0374182418
- ISBN 13
- 9780374182410
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of this journalistic account of the Swiss Army by the veteran NEW YORKER writer, following the army service of a Swiss winemaker. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original light grey cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in black. In original unclipped ($12.95) silver dust jacket. [8], 150 pages. Small bump to head of spine. Else crisp and clean.
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
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45890
- Title
- LA PLACE DE LA CONCORDE SUISSE
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374182418
- ISBN 13
- 9780374182410
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,1980s,US American
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