Claire Kohda

Going down in glory

Jan Morris’s follows the Yamato’s final days in April 1945, as the pride of the Japanese fleet met her inevitable end at Okinawa

  • Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony

    Jan Morris

    Pallas Athene, pp. 112

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