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Also, I saw the links you added to the Battle of Tarawa article. I'm not sure they should really be there, seeing that this book has not even been published. Those two sites seem to be more promotional sites for the author rather than anything adding to readers' knowledge of the battle. There is a Tarawa News and Discussion section on one of them, but at this point it just seems to be a rehash of Google News hits on "Tarawa"; the current lead item is a story about basketball ("Basketball big time on way to the west - Stuff.co.nz").

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I hope this helps. Again, welcome to Wikipedia and I hope you will continue contributing, especially to the Pacific-related WW2 pages.

--A. B. 17:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

PS I look forward to reading the reviews for Mr. Wukovits' book when it comes out. So far, I think Alexander's book is the best reference on the battle; he was able to do a tremendous amount of interviewing of Tarawa survivors before so many of them died of old age.