Battleship Yamato

Of War, Beauty and Irony

Jan Morris

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Pallas Athene
01 October 2023

True war & combat stories; History; History: specific events & topics; Naval forces & warfare

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 of 1945 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.

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 lived in Wales and kept a replica of the Yamato on her desk. Morris died in 2020.

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By: Jan Morris
Imprint: Pallas Athene
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 135mm, Width: 195mm,
Weight: 292g
ISBN: 9781843681472
ISBN 10: 1843681471
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 01 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

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 lived in Wales and kept a replica of the Yamato on her desk. Morris died in 2020

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Battleship Yamato

Of War, Beauty and Irony

Jan Morris

$32.99

Hardback

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