Gurkha
better to die than live a coward: my life in the gurkhas
$25.86
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2016
Summary
The Gurkha: Under Siege in Helmand
In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir, Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier - marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission to tell his story in his own words.
In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu’s platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in H…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349140100 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349140103 |
| Author: | Captain Kailash Limbu, Kailash Limbu |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
I was completely bowled over by Kailash’s book and read it with a beating heart and dry mouth. I felt as though I was at his side, hearing the shells and bullets, enjoying the jokes and listening in the scary dead of night. The skill with which he has included his childhood and training is immense, always discovered with ease in the narrative: it actually felt as though I was watching, was IN a film with him. It brought me nearer than I have ever been not only to the mind of the universal soldier but to a hill boy of Nepal and a hugely impressive Gurkha. I raced through it and couldn’t put it down: it reads like a thriller. If you want to know anything about the Gurkhas, read this book, and be prepared for a thrilling and dangerous trip - Joanna Lumley
About The Author
Captain Kailash Limbu
Captain Kailash Limbu was born in 1981 in Khebang village, one of the most remote in the whole of Nepal. He joined the 2nd Batallion Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1999 and undertook five tours of active service in Afghanistan. He has also been on operations in Bosnia and Sierra Leone. Married with two children, he is currently serving in the UK.
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