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Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour-Sergeant Kailash Limbu (Paperback, 2016)

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In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) 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 Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour operation. In the end, he and his men were under siege for thirty-one days - one of the longest such sieges in the whole of the Afghan campaign. Kailash Limbu recalls the terrifying and exciting details of those thirty-one days - in which they killed an estimated one hundred Taliban fighters - and intersperses them with the story of his own life as a villager from the Himalayas. He grew up in a place without roads or electricity and didn't see a car until he was fifteen. Kailash's descriptions of Gurkha training and rituals - including how to use the lethal Kukri knife - are eye-opening and fascinating. They combine with the story of his time in Helmand to create a unique account of one man's life as a Gurkha. '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

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Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-13
9780349140100
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Book Title
Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas
Author
Colour-Sergeant Kailash Limbu
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
292g

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Colour-Sergeant Kailash Limbu
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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by gongfermer18 Feb, 2022
Excellent book
This book is interesting in that it takes you from living in Nepal, through British Army selection & training, to the conflict in Afganistan. If you enjoy reading military & social history, this is a good read.
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by catherine-jack20 Mar, 2017
Bought for my Dad
My Dad really enjoyed this book he has always had a keen interest in the Gurkhas & he said he could not put it down. When I asked he said to give the book 5 stars.
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