Gregory Marks

Sep 18, 2024 | theunion.com | Gregory Marks

Eighty years ago today, as World War II raged in Europe, U.S. Army pilot William Marks flew a glider behind enemy lines into German territory. He was ferrying seven enlisted men and supplies to a bold new war front known as Operation Market Garden. But that gentle name belied the hellish situation awaiting Marks and his fellow pilots. I am Gregory Marks, William’s son, and this is the story of what happened that day eight decades ago.

Nov 29, 2023 | overland.org.au | Gregory Marks |Francesca Newton |Fred Pryce

Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of Wake in Fright, one of Australian cinema’s most unsettling horror movies, as well as one of its most perceptive works of national self-interrogation.