author
Kathleen Burke
1887–1958
A firsthand voice from the First World War, remembered for vivid writing about Verdun and for a life shaped by humanitarian work in Europe and the United States.
2 Audiobooks
The White Road to Verdun
by Kathleen Burke
The White Road to Verdun
by Kathleen Burke
About the author
Born in London in 1887, Kathleen Burke later became widely known as Kathleen Burke Hale. Reliable archival and reference sources describe her as British-born, of Irish descent, educated at Oxford and in Paris, and deeply involved in relief work during and after the world wars.
She is best remembered by readers for The White Road to Verdun, a firsthand war narrative drawn from her experience close to the Western Front. Her life stretched beyond writing alone: archives and biographical sources portray her as a decorated humanitarian and philanthropist whose service in wartime earned recognition from several European nations.
Burke spent later years in California and died in 1958. For audiobook listeners, her work offers both historical immediacy and the perspective of someone who witnessed war not from a distance, but at close range.