{"product_id":"battleship-yamato-jan-morris-9781631493423","title":"Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony","description":"The battleship \u003cem\u003eYamato\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003ekamikaze\u003c\/em\u003e, was running short--\u003cem\u003eYamato\u003c\/em\u003e 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 splendor and its squalor, its heroism and its waste. Drawing on rich naval history and rhapsodic metaphors from international music and art, \u003cem\u003eBattleship Yamato\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of grand ironic elegy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Morris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1631493426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781631493423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.10h x 7.60w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2017 pg. 60","brand":"Jan Morris","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43939443802367,"sku":"9781631493423","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f23b811d-bd00-4517-9c06-39d1263d45da.jpg?v=1681441525","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/battleship-yamato-jan-morris-9781631493423","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}