Bibliograph

Gurkha, better to die than live a coward : my life with the Gurkhas, Kailash Limbu

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Gurkha, better to die than live a coward : my life with the Gurkhas, Kailash Limbu

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

mapsillustrationsplates

Index

index present

Intended audience

Adult

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gurkha

Responsibility statement

Kailash Limbu

Sub title

better to die than live a coward : my life with the Gurkhas

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Death at a Hundred and Twenty Metres per Second -- 2.Limbuwan -- 3.Into Now Zad -- 4.The DC -- 5.Establishing the Routine -- 6.Goat Curry and a Contact -- 7.A Traitor in the Compound -- 8.A Change of Atmosphere -- 9.The Brigade of Gurkhas -- 10.Ambushed -- 11.Target! -- 12.All the Fires of Hell -- 13.Man Down -- 14.A Moment of Madness -- 15.Night Attack -- 16.Extraction

Target audience

adult

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