Colin Burgess (author)

Colin Burgess (author)

Colin Burgess (born 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.[1] Two of Burgess's co-authored 2007 books, Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 and In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 were named as finalists for the 2007 Eugene M. Emme Award given by the American Astronautical Society. "In the Shadow of the Moon" was also named as "2009 Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine.[2]

Bibliography

  • 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
  • Astronomica, Ed. Fred Watson, 2007 (contributor)
  • The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies, with Rex Hall, 2009
  • Australia's Astronauts: Countdown to a Spaceflight Dream, 2009
  • Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975, 2010 [3]
  • How Wickie Saved the World, 2010 [4]
  • Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts, 2011 [5]

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