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La Place de La Concorde Suisse

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ISBN13: 9780374519322
ISBN10: 0374519323
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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 Isrealis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model.
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About the Author

John McPhee is the author of twenty-six books, including Annals of the Former World, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1965 and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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ISBN:
9780374519322
Author:
McPhee, John
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Author:
McPhee, John
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Military Science
Subject:
History
Subject:
Politics and government
Subject:
Customs & Traditions
Subject:
Switzerland
Subject:
Western Europe
Subject:
Neutrality
Subject:
Western Europe - General
Subject:
General Political Science
Series Volume:
12352
Publication Date:
April 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
152
Dimensions:
8.26x5.60x.39 in. .45 lbs.
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