La Place de la Concorde Suisse

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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.

Number of Pages: 160

ISBN: 0374519323

ISBN-13: 9780374519322

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