Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony [Hardcover]

The battleshipThe short, illustrated book Morris has written about the Yamato is what she calls 'a reverie' on the varied emotions that war summons up&I think it's safe to say that Morris has also written a reverie on accepting the inevitability of death&.This book itself signals yet another end: Certainly, it will be one of the very last books written about World War II by an author who saw active service in that war. That sobering fact only adds to the elegiac resonance of this magnificent little book.An extraordinaryand strikinglyillustratedreflection on the meaning ofwar from one of our greatest living writers.