200 Shots

Bringing one of Australia's most gripping war campaigns to life, this photography collection highlights the work of two great World War II photographers and presents an historical analysis of each shot, the photographers' reactions to their subjects, and look at the very nature of the fighting in what was one of the Australian army's greatest tests.

Neil McDonald is the author of War Cameraman: The Story of Damien Parer and the curator of Still Action, the first exhibition of Parer's war photography. Peter Brune is a leading authority and writer on the Australian campaigns in New Guinea during World War II. He is the author of A Bastard of a Place, Gona's Gone, The Spell Broken, Those Ragged Bloody Heroes, and We Band of Brothers.