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La Place de La Concorde Suisse

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
Verkaufsrang527inTechnik
CHF24.40

Beschreibung

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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ISBN/GTIN978-0-374-51932-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum15.04.1994
Seiten160 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 141 mm, Höhe 210 mm, Dicke 10 mm
Gewicht188 g
Artikel-Nr.2431228
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.9406731
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John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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