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La Place de la Concorde Suisse

by John McPhee · 1983 · 160 pages

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La Place de la Concorde Suisseis 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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Subject
historytravelpolitics
Genre
war and military
Themes
journalistshistorymilitary history
Setting
switzerland
Audience
adult
Length
short · 160 pages
Form
essays

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