Alan Burgess

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, 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 RAF during World War II, he went on to write The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape, the story of "the Great Escape".

• 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. Adapted for the screen as Operation Daybreak
• 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.