Colin Burgess (author)

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Colin Burgess (1947 - ) is an Australian author and historian, specializing in space flight and military history. He is a former customer service manager for Qantas Airways, and a regular contributor to the collectSPACE online community. He lives in New South Wales.

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Aircraft, 1985
Pioneers of Flight, 1988
Prisoners of War, with Hugh Clarke and Russell Braddon, 1988
Laughter in the Air: Tales from the Qantas Era, with Max Harris, 1988
More Laughter in the Air: Tales from the Qantas Era, 1992
Barbed Wire and Bamboo: Australian POW Stories, with Hugh Clarke, 1993
Freedom or Death : Australia's Greatest Escape Stories from Two World Wars, 1994
Destination Buchenwald, 1995.
The Diggers of Colditz : the classic Australian POW escape story now completely revised and expanded, with Jack Champ, 1997
Australia's Dambusters: The Men and Missions of 617 Squadron, 2003
Bush Parker: An Australian Battle of Britain Pilot in Colditz, 2007
Space, the New Frontier, 1987
Oceans to Orbit: The Story of Australia's First Man in Space, Paul Scully-Power, 1995
Australia's Astronauts: Three Men and a Spaceflight Dream, 1999
Teacher In Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy, 2000
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes who Died Reaching for the Moon, with Kate Doolan, 2003
NASA's Scientist-Astronauts, with David Shayler, 2006
Animals In Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle, with Chris Dubbs, 2007
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965, with Francis French, 2007
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969, with Francis French, 2007