![]() ![]() ![]() 208), is the story of an ordinary hill boy from Nepal whose ambition was to be a Gurkha from as far back as he could remember it is the personal record of how a few dozen men of the second battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles held out at Now Zad against the combined forces of the Taliban insurgency at a time when the area was largely under their control (pp. The volume is dedicated to Lance Corporal Gajbahadur Gurung (1985-2012), a courageous and talented comrade of the author who was killed-in-action during a later operation in Afghanistan (page v, where the name is misspelled "Guring," and pp. 264-8 to discover that the event was something of a damp squib. 5-11), designed to hook the interest of readers, who have to wait until pp. The opening chapter is lifted out of context in order to provide a "cliff-hanger" (pp. ![]() This book, published to celebrate two hundred years of uninterrupted Gurkha service to the British Crown, comprises a narrative of a month-long operation in Helmand province in mid-2006, interweaved with flashbacks covering the author's earlier life, along with supplementary sections discussing Nepalese history, society, religion, traditions, and relaxations. Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu, 2015, Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life with the Gurkhas (with maps by John Gilkes Little, Brown, London hbk, 20.00 ISBN 978-1-4087-0535-3 hbk, ISBN 978-1-4087-0536-0 pbk viii + 340pp maps, plates, index). ![]()
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