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Battleship Yamato : of war, beauty and irony
\"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 ... Yamato arose as the last magnificent arrow in the imperial quiver of Emperor Hirohito. Here, Jan Morris not only tells the ... story of the ... ship itself--from secret wartime launch to futile sacrifice at Okinawa--but, more fundamentally, interprets the ship as an allegorical figure of war itself\"--Provided by publisher.
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Journeys
Superbly written articles about cities as different as Las Vegas and Stockholm, about journeys across Europe and China, and about \"romantic re-visits\" to such historic sites as the Acropolis and the Taj Mahal.
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