Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas

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.

Title - Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas

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Author - Kailash Limbu

ISBN 13 - 9781408705353

Imprint - Little, Brown

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 21/05/2015

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Binding Type - Hardback

Dimensions - 174 x 242 x 33mm

Weight - 628 g

Languages - English