La Place de la Concorde Suisse
by McPhee, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Top page block darkened, stain from smoky fire. no odor. Near fine jacket. Fine interior, fi
- ISBN 10
- 0374182418
- ISBN 13
- 9780374182410
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, 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
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.B1570003847
- Title
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Top page block darkened, stain from smoky fire. no odor. Near fine jacket. Fine interior, fi
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. 1st printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374182418
- ISBN 13
- 9780374182410
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Swiss Army militia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Writers;
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