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| December 01, 2004 | McDonald, Neil | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

EARLIER THIS YEAR I received a letter from Marjory Silk: George was failing, and one of his comforts was my 1994 book, War Cameraman: The Story of Damien Parer. Somehow the stout paperback had been virtually read to pieces, and could I find another copy? From one point of view Marjory's timing couldn't have been better: a revised edition of the Parer biography (now titled Damien Parer's War) had just been released, containing even more of George's pictures than previously; including extra material he had recalled when I'd interviewed him for Peter Brune's and my 200 Shots: Damien Parer, George Silk and the Australians at War in New Guinea.

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