Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony - Rilegato

Jan Morris

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ISBN 10: 1843681471 ISBN 13: 9781843681472

Casa editrice: Pallas Athene Publishers, 2018

Riassunto

The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, wasthe most powerful warship of World War II and representedthe climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior traditions of thesamurai - the ideals of honour, discipline, and self-sacrificethat had immemorially ennobled the Japanese nationalconsciousness. 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 thelast magnificent arrow in the imperial quiver of EmperorHirohito.Here, Jan Morris not only tells the dramatic story of themagnificent ship itself - from secret wartime launch to futilesacrifice at Okinawa - but, more fundamentally, interprets theship as an allegorical figure of war itself, in its splendour andits squalor, its heroism and its waste. Drawing on rich navalhistory and rhapsodic metaphors from international musicand art, Battleship Yamato is a work of grand ironic elegy.

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L'autore

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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• Editore: Pallas Athene Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1843681471
• ISBN 13: 9781843681472
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 112