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La Place de la Concorde Suisse / John McPhee.
LIBRA UA800 .M3 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McPhee, John, 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Switzerland. Armée.
- Switzerland.
- Neutrality.
- Switzerland--Defenses.
- Defenses.
- Switzerland--Neutrality.
- Neutrality--Switzerland.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 149 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1984]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Notes:
- "First printing, 1984."
- Originally appeared in the New Yorker.
- In English.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Malgieri Collection copy has 4 Air Mail envelopes laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0374182418 :
- OCLC:
- 10301469
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