Colin Burgess (author)
Colin Burgess (born March 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. 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. 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. Revised and expanded edition published 2022 The Diggers of Colditz: the classic Australian POW escape story now completely revised and expanded, with Jack Champ, 1997 and