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Gurkha : Better to Die Than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas, Hardback Book

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

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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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