La Place de la Concorde Suisse
- ISBN-10
- 0374708533
- ISBN-13
- 9780374708535
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-01
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Author
- John McPhee
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
La place de la Concorde suisse
By John MacPhee, Béatrice MoulinLa place de la Concorde suisse
-
Swiss Army: la Place de la Concorde Suisse
By John McPheeSwiss Army: la Place de la Concorde Suisse
-
Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War II
By Stephen P. Halbrook, P HalbrookThis book provides an objective, year-by-year account of Switzerland's military role in World War II, including her defensive strategies, details of Nazi invasion plans, and Switzerland's moral, material and humanitarian links to the Allies ...
-
Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland
By Paul 1915- ZumthorThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
-
Why Switzerland?
This third edition tries to test the flexibility of the Swiss way of politics in the globalized world, social media, the huge expansion of money in world circulation and the vast tsunamis of capital which threaten to swamp it.
-
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
By John BeckThis is the age of patina, where the material remains of times past—the fields and factories, test sites, back alleys, machines, and statues—are coveted, adored, mourned, and commemorated, as well as sometimes despised.
-
The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods
By Rachel Woodward, Alison J. Williams, Neil JenkingsMcPhee's reportorial nonfiction relies upon the rhetoric of direct experience, but if La Place de la Concorde Suisse is a testimony, it is to the obliqueness of language as it approaches the logic of militarization.
-
The Second John McPhee Reader
By John McPheeGIVING GOOD WEIGHT (19 7ft) [Giving Good Weight is a five-part collection with highly varied themes. In the title piece, McPhee is working for a farmer in theGreenmarkets of Harlem, Brooklyn, the Upper East Side.
-
A Strategy For Terminating A Nuclear War
By Clark C Abt50-117; "La Place de la Concorde Suisse (II)." The New Yorker. November 7, 1983, pp. 55-112. Nuclear War in the 1980s? (Christopher Chant and Ian Hogg, eds.). New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Ogarkov, Nikolai. "Strategiia voennala.
-
The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding
By David W. HallIn this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that the American founders were more greatly influenced by Calvinism than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood.