La Place de la Concorde Suisse
by McPhee, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrer Straus Giroux, 1984. First Edition. First Printing Fine in light gray cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. In a fine jacket with with the price intact on the front flap. McPhee's classic narrative of the Swiss Army through the eyes of Luc Massy, who like 650,000 other Swiss citizens, is a member of the army which can be fully mobilized in less than 48 hours.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB16309
- Title
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrer Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
Terms of Sale
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