Alan Burgess (English Royal Air Force pilot and writer)
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- Burgess, Alan
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- Date of birth
- 1915-02-01
- Place of birth
- Birmingham
- Date of death
- 1998-04-10
- Place of death
- England
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Alan Burgess (1 February 1915 – 10 April 1998) was an English Royal Air Force pilot and author who wrote several biographical and non-fiction books between the 1950s and the 1970s. He wrote biographies of Gladys Aylward, and Flora Sandes, and co-wrote Ingrid Bergman's autobiography. Bergman played Gladys Aylward in the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness based on Burgess's biography.
Having served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, Burgess went on to write The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape, the story of "The Great Escape".
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| Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ingrid Bergman: Mein Leben | Paperback | 3-548-20481-3 | 1985-01 |
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- 2022-01-06