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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Military history

• Full title: Gurkha
• Subtitle: Better to Die Than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas
• Author: Kailash Limbu
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780349140100
• ISBN: 0349140103
• ID: 09367112
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 290 g
• Dimensions: 129 × 197 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. May 2016

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