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02499aam a22003978i 4500 001 B79E0A8E370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170724t20172017nyua 000 0 eng 010 $a 2017035438 020 $a 1631493426 020 $a 9781631493423 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ja--- 050 00 $a D777.5.Y33 $b M67 2017 082 00 $a 940.54/5952 $2 23 100 1 $a Morris, Jan, $d 1926- $e author. 245 10 $a Battleship Yamato : $b of war, beauty and irony / $c Jan Morris. 250 $a First American edition. 263 $a 1711. 264 1 $a New York : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, $c [2017] 300 $a 111 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 14 x 20 cm. 505 0 $a Prologue -- Tiger on a leash -- Line of succession -- For the next day's war -- Halfway there -- Beyond Armageddon -- Valedictory -- Thanks. 520 $a "An extraordinary--and strikingly illustrated--reflection on the meaning of war from one of our greatest living writers. 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 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, Battleship Yamato is a work of grand ironic elegy."--Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Yamato (Battleship) 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Naval operations, Japanese. 941 $a 7 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204090756.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110072646.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006114442.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180802013618.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20180801011314.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20180728011842.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180405010310.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B79E0A8E370411E887D7D95B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search