documentary "Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story", narrated by Ed Harris. "Tarawa Atoll Sanglant" is a Belgian comic written by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon in 1950. () Leon Uris' 1953 fictional Battle Cry extensively depicts the 1943 battle. (Uris was a Marine on Guadalcanal.) A 1956 British drama film Pacific Destiny based on the book A Pattern of Islands was made in 1956. The Far Reaches, a 2007 historical novel by Homer Hickam, describes the Battle of Tarawa. () In the novel Snow Falling on Cedars, Ishmael Chambers is a World War II US Marine Corps veteran who lost an arm fighting the Japanese at the Battle of Tarawa while watching his friends die. He revisits his part in the battle in a flashback. Memorial USS Tarawa was the name of the first LHA-class amphibious assault ship. See also Tarawa Climate Change Conference References External links Tarawa on The Web – A History of the Bloodiest Battle The Marine Assault of Tarawa Tarawa the Aftermath "Tarawa" the USCG cat Exhibit: The Alfred Agate Collection: The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838–1842 from the Navy Art Gallery Return to Tawara Capitals in Oceania Populated places in Kiribati Atolls of Kiribati Gilbert Islands