Colin Burgess

Author Biography Colin Burgess was born in suburban Sydney in 1947. To date, he has written or co-authored nearly forty books, covering the Australian prisoner-of-war experience, aviation, and human space exploration. Colin still lives near Sydney with his wife Pat. They have two adult sons and three grandchildren.
Ebooks
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
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Moon Bound: Choosing and Preparing NASA's Lunar Astronauts
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Sisters in Captivity: Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the courageous story of Australian Army nurses in Sumatra, 1942–1945
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Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes who Died Reaching for the Moon
Friendship 7: The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr.
Soviets in Space: Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier
Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration
Aurora 7: The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter
Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts
The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
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Interkosmos: The Eastern Bloc's Early Space Program
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NASA's Scientist-Astronauts
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Liberty Bell 7: The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom
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Sigma 7: The Six Mercury Orbits of Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff
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Australia's Greatest Escapes: Gripping tales of wartime bravery
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The Diggers of Colditz: The classic Australian POW story about escape from the inescapable
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Australia's Dambusters: Flying into Hell with 617 Squadron
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Destination Buchenwald: The astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp
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The Last of NASA's Original Pilot Astronauts: Expanding the Space Frontier in the Late Sixties