Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony

by Jan Morris

Book Overview

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 honor, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631493426
• ISBN13: 9781631493423
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.6" x 5.1"