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Publisher | : Elliott & Thompson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Gurkha soldiers |
ISBN | : 9781909653993 |
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Alex Schlacher has accompanied the Gurkhas on operations in Afghanistan, on exercises in the Brunei jungle and Australia, and has visited all the units in the Brigade as well as retired and medically discharged Gurkhas. She has taken intimate portraits of hundreds of soldiers and heard their stories, many of which are recounted in this book. There have been other books on the Gurkhas, but none has portrayed the individual soldiers and focused about their backgrounds, lives and thoughts.
Author | : W. Brook Northey |
Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788120613294 |
Download The land of the Gurkhas, or, The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : J P Cross |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 075096930X |
Download It Happens with Gurkhas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gurkhas have served with the British for almost 200 years, first with the army of the East India Company, then with the Indian Army of the Raj, and then in 1947 becoming an integral part of the British Army. This anthology of articles from The Kukri, the Gurkha regimental journals, by J.P. Cross covers much of the past sixty years of their history, taking in the last days of the Second World War and the Indonesian Confrontation in the 1960s, and also gives an insight into the everyday life, culture and beliefs of these renowned soldiers.As a Gurkha officer, J.P. Cross had many unusual experiences in his long career: in 1945, for example, he was attached to a Japanese battalion in Indochina that was fighting for the British against the Viet Minh, and the only photograph taken of this Japanese unit finally laying down its weapons appears in this book. Later, he just managed to resolve a potentially deadly dispute between an offended Gurkha and a visiting South Vietnamese trainee at the Jungle Warfare School. He also describes several seemingly supernatural experiences whilst serving with troops from a culture where such things are firmly believed in.This is a unique anthology of articles drawn from an equally unique military career and a relationship with the Gurkhas that has lasted for over half a century.
Author | : William Brook Northey |
Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9788120615779 |
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With Forward By C.G. Bruce. Lllustrations From Photographs By Author.
Author | : Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker |
Publisher | : London, Constable |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Gorkha (South Asian people) |
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Author | : Henry Ballantine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Nepal |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : J. P. Cross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : British |
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Author | : Kailash Limbu |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Book Group |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2015-05-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408705370 |
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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 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. '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 at 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 nearer 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 raced 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
Author | : Tim I Gurung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-12-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780143460657 |
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The history of the Gurkha serviceman is one that goes beyond soldiering and bravery-it is in equal measure a story of the resilient human spirit, and of a tiny community that carved for itself a niche in world history.
Author | : H. T. Prinsep |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2007-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781846771699 |
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WHEN BRITON FOUGHT GURKHA No-one who has an interest in British military history is ignorant of the role of the Gurkhas. Their loyalty and courage is as legendary as the affection with which they are regarded by the British military and civilians alike. It was not always so. At the beginning of the 19th century, as the British empire inexorably expanded its inflfl uence to embrace the Indian Sub-Continent, the Nepalese empire itself covered huge areas of Northern India - stretching at times from the borders of the Sikh kingdom in the west to the foothills of the Himalayas where they meet the Bay of Bengal. When these two empires clashed, the British certainly experienced an unpleasant surprise. For they confronted warriors of astonishing bravery, gallantry and ferocity, with no mean grasp of tactics. So began a hard-fought, touch-and-go war between enemies who would one day be inseparable friends. This is the story of that war!