Gurkha. Better To Die Than Live A Coward. My Life With The Gurkhas

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Little,Brown
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 340 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. For The First Time In Its Two Hundred Year History, A Soldier Of The Brigade Of Gurkhas Has Been Given Permission To Tell His Story In His Own Words.

Publishers Description: In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Khebangs 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 Khebang 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 didnt see a car until he was fifteen. Kailashs 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 mans life as a Gurkha.

ISBN: 9781408705360