Colin Burgess
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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.
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