The Pan/ Ballantine/ Purnell's Illustrated History of World War II- Battle Series #8- Tarawa: A Legend Is Born (1969) By Henry I. Shaw Jr
 
Between 1968 and 1975 Ballantine Books published an extensive series of military history books.

Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, later re-titled Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, was a series of paperback books printed in both the USA and UK.

Editor-in-Chief for the series was journalist, author and editor Barrie Pitt. Barrie had written several successful military history books. He had also edited, under the overall editorship of Sir Basil Liddell-Hart, Purnell's History of the Second World War. This was a 96-instalment mass circulation series launched in 1966 at the Imperial War Museum.
 
Soft Cover 
160 pages 
In Good Condition