Arkadaş Yayıncılık Gurkha: Better To Die Than Live A Coward: My Life In The Gurkhas

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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 entire afghan campaign. Kailash limbu, who recalls the terrifying and exciting details of those thirty-one days - in which they killed an estimated one hundred taliban fighters - 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.

onlar, helmand'daki zamanının hikayesiyle birleşerek, bir gurkha olarak bir adamın hayatının benzersiz bir anlatımını oluşturuyor.

'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 by 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 closer 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 rushed 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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• Origin: GB