Alan Burgess

Alan Burgess
Born	1 February 1915 Birmingham
Died	10 April 1998 (aged 83) England
Occupation	Author

Alan Burgess (1 February 1915 – 10 April 1998) was an RAF pilot and English author who wrote several biographical and non-fiction books between the 1950s and the 1970s. He wrote biographies of Gladys Aylward,^[1] and Flora Sandes,^[2] and co-wrote Ingrid Bergman's autobiography.^[3] Bergman played Gladys Aylward in the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness based on Burgess's biography.

Having served in the RAF during World War II,^[4] he went on to write The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape,^[5] the story of "the Great Escape".

Works

• Alan Burgess (1990). The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-097-9.
• Ingrid Bergman; Alan Burgess (1995). Ingrid Bergman: My Story. Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-7515-0870-3.
• Alan Burgess (1957). The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
• Alan Burgess (1966). Seven Men at Daybreak. Evans. ISBN 978-0-237-28715-3.
• Alan Burgess (1975). Daylight Must Come: The Story of a Courageous Woman Doctor in the Congo. G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-6281-9.
• Alan Burgess (1963). The Lovely Sergeant. Readers Book Club.
• Alan Burgess (1959). The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward. Reprint Society.
• Alan Burgess (1968). The Word for Love. Dutton.
• Kay Sandiford, Alan Burgess (1984). Shattered Night.

References

1. The Small Woman (1957)
2. The Lovely Sergeant (1963)
3. Ingrid Bergman: My Story (1972).
4. Escaping a Nazi Prison Camp
5. Burgess (1990).

External links

• Alan Burgess at LibraryThing.com
• Alan Burgess at WorldCat.org