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The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior traditions of the samurai - the ideals of honour, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had immemorially ennobled the Japanese national consciousness. Stoically poised for battle in the spring of1945 - when even Japan's last desperate technique of arms, the kamikaze, was running short - Yamato arose as the last magnificent arrow in the imperial quiver of Emperor Hirohito.
Here, Jan Morris not only tells the dramatic story of the magnificent ship itself - from secret wartime launch to futile sacrifice at Okinawa - but, more fundamentally, interprets the ship as an allegorical figure of war itself, in its splendour and its squalor, its heroism and its waste. Drawing on rich naval history and rhapsodic metaphors from international music and art, Battleship Yamato is a work of grand ironic elegy.
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About the Author
Born in 1926, Jan Morris served in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers in World War II. The author of such classics as the Pax Britannia trilogy and Conundrum, she lives in Wales and keeps a replica of the Yamato on her desk. Her last book Ciao, Carpaccio! An Infatuation is also available from Pallas Athene.
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- PublisherPallas Athene Publishers
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1843681471
- ISBN 13 9781843681472
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages112
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