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Gurkha : better to die than live a coward : my life in the Gurkhas
Limbu, Kailash, 1981-2016
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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.
Main title:
Gurkha : better to die than live a coward : my life in the Gurkhas / Kailash Limbu.
Author:
Limbu, Kailash, 1981-, author
Imprint:
London : Abacus, 2016.
Collation:
340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2015.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780349140100 (pbk)
Dewey class:
958.1'047'092
Language:
English
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BRN:
28057
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