La Place de la Concorde Suisse

La Place de la Concorde Suisse
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9780374708535
ISBN-13 : 0374708533
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Download or read book La Place de la Concorde Suisse written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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