Letters from the Burma Front: In Conversation with Prof Kate Venables

Kate Venables' father, Dr Harry Walker, was a young army anaesthetist in a mobile surgical unit operating close behind the fighting front of the Second World War’s Burma campaign. The author combines a strong, researched contextualising social and military history with fluent everyday English, helping to simplify an often complex war situation.

Simultaneously, it is a personal document by Harry’s daughter and is generously illustrated with images from the family collection and public archives.

Don’t miss this blend of history and medicine, plus a Q&A with the author.

Letters from the Burma Front is published by Pen & Sword and copies will be available to purchase at the event.

The admission price includes a drinks reception.

Kate Venables is a physician and writer and an Emeritus Reader/Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her historical articles have appeared in Medical History and the Journal of Medical Biography. Before she retired, her main research project at Oxford was an epidemiological study of mortality and cancer incidence in military veterans who took part in chemical warfare agent trials at Porton Down from the 1940s to the 1980s.