Uses primary sources, Japanese documents, and interviews with survivors to present the history of the U.S. Marines' 1943 landing on the Japanese-held Tarawa atoll in the Pacific.

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Col. Joseph H. Alexander, a combat veteran who served in the Marine Corps for twenty-eight years, is the author of six books and has helped produce twenty-five documentaries about Marines. He lives in Asheville, NC.

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