Colin Burgess (author)

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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.[1]

Two of Burgess's co-authored 2007 books,

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. 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 2019
  • Australia's Dambusters: The Men and Missions of
    617 Squadron
    , 2003, re-released in 2021
  • Bush Parker: An Australian Battle of Britain Pilot in Colditz, 2007,
    ISBN 098032047X
  • 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, revised edition 2020
  • Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, with Kate Doolan, 2003. Revised expanded edition, 2016
  • 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]
  • Moon Bound: Choosing and Training the Lunar Astronauts, 2012
  • Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
    , 2014
  • Virgil I. Grissom
    , 2014
  • John H. Glenn, Jr.
    , 2015
  • M. Scott Carpenter
    , 2015
  • Interkosmos: The Eastern Bloc's Early Space Program, 2015
  • Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
    , 2016
  • L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
    and the Final Mercury Mission    , 2016
  • The Last of NASA's Original Pilot Astronauts: Expanding the Space Frontier in the Late Sixties, with David J. Shayler, 2017
  • Shattered Dreams: The Lost or Canceled Space Missions, 2019
  • NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff, 2020
  • Australia's Greatest Escapes: Gripping Tales of Wartime Bravery, 2020
  • The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration, 2021
  • Soviets in Space: Russia's Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier, 2022
  • Sisters in Captivity: Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the courageous story of Australian Army nurses in Sumatra, 1942-1945, 2023

References

  1. ^ Colin Burgess Official Biography Page
  2. ^ In the Shadow of the Moon Awards Information, nebraskapress.unl.edu. Accessed 30 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Footprints in the Dust" Official Publisher Site
  4. ^ "How Wickie Saved the World" National Library Site
  5. ^ "Selecting the Mercury Seven" Official Publisher Site

External links

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