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Gurkha

Kailash Limbu
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Author : Kailash Limbu
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408705377

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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

The Gurkhas

John Parker
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Author : John Parker
Publisher : Bounty Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0753712938

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The author has travelled in Nepal and met many Gurkhas to investigate the background to their traditional service to Britain and the threat that this is now under. He recounts famous battles when they collected VC's and earned admiration.

Ayo Gorkhali

Tim I Gurung
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Author : Tim I Gurung
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354929908

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Nepal, 1767. The tiny kingdom of Gorkha is on the ascendant under its ruler Prithvi Narayan Shah. Over the next few decades, his Gorkhali army establishes a mighty kingdom, the borders of which extend from Kangra in the west to the Teesta river in the east. The territory encompasses a large part of present-day Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and almost all of present-day Nepal and Sikkim. When they are eventually reined in by the mighty British army in 1815, it sparks off a new engagement between the imperial power and Nepal. Impressed by the fighting abilities on display, the British army begins recruiting them. The Gurkhas (the prevalent spelling today) go on to serve with distinction in many theatres of war over the next hundred-odd years, their exploits in World War I and II earning them a number of bravery medals. With Indian independence in 1947 comes further change: the Gurkhas are now split across three armies: the British, Indian and the Nepalese. Ayo Gorkhali by Tim I. Gurung, a former British Gurkha, is the first work of history by a member of the community and brings alive the story of a people who have served flags other than their own with honour, even as they have attempted to keep their native warrior traditions alive in letter and spirit. 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.

The Gurkhas

Mike Chappell
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Author : Mike Chappell
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1855323575

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The origins of the Gurkhas date back to 1815, when one of the most skilled and determined opponents that the British soldier had to overcome in battle was the Nepalese warrior. The British were so impressed with the military skills of these fighters that they began recruiting units exclusively from Nepal. From this beginning grew the now famous Gurkha units. This volume examines the development of the Gurkhas through the various wars and confrontations of the 19th century, through the First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), and the various postwar conflicts including Malaya, Borneo and the Falklands.

Warrior Gentlemen

Lionel Caplan
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Author : Lionel Caplan
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1571818529

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Study of the representation of the Gurkhas - Nepal soldiers who served in Britain's Imperial and post-Imperial armies - in Western literature, and the social/cultural contexts in which European chroniclers operated

Arc of the Gurkha

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elliott & Thompson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Gurkha soldiers
ISBN : 1909653993

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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.

The Gurkhas

J. C. Lawrence
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Author : J. C. Lawrence
Publisher : Uniform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Gurkha soldiers
ISBN : 191050002X

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Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw, former Chief of Staff of the Indian Army once said, "If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha." There is no body of fighters more well known--or more feared--in the British Army than the Brigade of Gurkhas. Formed in June 1815, these fierce soldiers are still world-renowned for their courage, finesse, and their signature weapon, the Khukuri. In their two-hundred year history, they have won major victories, countless medals for bravery, and the hearts of the British people. This book, written by Major General J C Lawrence CBE, with a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales, is the complete visual history of the regiment, its brave soldiers, and the romanticism imbued by tales told over centuries. With over two hundred magnificent photos, The Gurkhas will delight historians and military enthusiasts alike.

The British Army, the Gurkhas and Cold War Strategy in the Far East, 1947–1954

Raffi Gregorian
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Author : Raffi Gregorian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230287167

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This book argues that postwar Britain's 'imperial over-extension' has been exaggerated. Britain developed and adjusted its defence strategy based upon the perceived Communist threat and available resources. It was especially successful at adapting to meet the strategic and resource challenges from the Far East from 1947-54. There British and Gurkha forces were deployed only in contingencies that threatened vital British interests, while the U.S. and Commonwealth allies were persuaded to accept key wartime missions, thus preserving Britain's ability to fight in Western Europe.

Imperial Warriors

Tony Gould
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Author : Tony Gould
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gorkha (South Asian people)
ISBN : 1862073651

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A comprehensive history of the Gurkhas, which remains to this day a unique and much-loved regiment, and which played a crucial role in the British Empire.

Gurkha Odyssey

Peter Duffell
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Author : Peter Duffell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526730589

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A British general’s memoir of serving with these famed Nepalese warriors: “An inspiring journey, delightfully related.” —Times Literary Supplement It is 1814 and the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company is at war with a marauding Nepal. It is here that the British first encounter the martial spirit of their indomitable foe—the Gurkha hill men from that mountainous independent land. Impressed by their fighting qualities and with the end of hostilities in sight, the Company begins to recruit them into their own ranks. Since then these lighthearted and gallant soldiers have successfully campaigned wherever the British Army has served—from the North West Frontier of India through two World Wars to the contemporary battlefields of the Falklands and Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, with well over one hundred battle honors to their name and at a cost of 20,000 casualties. Here, Peter Duffell separates fact and myth and recounts something of the history, character, and spirit of these loyal and dedicated soldiers—seen through the prism of his service and campaigning as a regular officer in the 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles, as the Brigade of Gurkhas Major General and as Regimental Colonel of the Royal Gurkha Rifles.

The Gurkhas

Byron Farwell
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Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000691672

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Geschiedenis van de uit Nepal afkomstige Gurkharegimenten die zich door hun krijgshaftigheid hebben onderscheiden in talloze oorlogen sinds 1816, in dienst van het Britse leger.

Gurkha Brotherhood

Kailash Limbu
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Author : Kailash Limbu
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789292596

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'Sometimes my mind reaches back beyond the fear and the arid landscapes of war, to memories of childhood that fill me with happiness and laughter.' ___________ 'A humane and gripping book which proves beyond doubt why the Gurkhas are known as such formidable warriors.' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes ___________ This is a searingly honest memoir by Kailash Limbu, a serving Gurkha soldier who undertook five tours of active service in Afghanistan. Kailash Limbu was in the front line of the fighting in Helmand Province. On dangerous resupply missions and on offensive patrols that took them to the heart of the 'killing zone', he and his men came under frequent attack from Taliban fighters. He talks of other operations in which he has served - and, perhaps most movingly, of the other Gurkha soldiers - the united band of brothers - with whom he serves and on whom he relies every day. On many occasions he has feared he would not live to see the end of the day - and, inevitably, he lost several friends and colleagues from the close-knit Gurkha brotherhood. His means of coping with the trauma of conflict was to travel back in his mind to his childhood in a remote Himalayan village in Nepal. But even amid the simplicity of mountain life, danger and tragedy lurked. In this compelling narrative Capt Limbu celebrates his Gurkha heritage, relates remarkable stories of courage (his own and others'), and confronts demons that have shaped but never broken him. The result is a record of war and peace that is rare in its honesty and humility.

The Gurkha's Daughter

Prajwal Parajuly
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Author : Prajwal Parajuly
Publisher : RiverRun
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780872957

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A disfigured servant girl plans to flee Nepal; a Kalimpong shopkeeper faces an impossible dilemma; a Hindu religious festival in Darjeeling brings with it a sacrifice; a Nepali-Bhutanese refugee pins her hopes on the West; a Gurkha's daughter tries to comprehend her father's complaints; two young Nepali-speaking immigrants meet in Manhattan. These are just some of the stories describing and dramatizing the experiences of the Nepalese people and the Nepalese diaspora - the people whose culture and language is Nepalese but who are dispersed to India, Bhutan and beyond. From every perspective and on every page, Prajwal Parajuly blends rich colour and vernacular to paint an eye-opening picture of a unique world and its people.

The Gurkhas

John Parker
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Author : John Parker
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472202604

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Their ferocity is as legendary as their loyalty to the British Monarch and their regimental histories are crammed with acts of incredible bravery and sacrifice. Their reputation as fearsome fighting men remains undisputed and the mere threat of their kukri knives has put the fear of God into opposing forces throughout the world. John Parker's book is a fascinating testimony to the Gurkhas - a fighting force that stands dramatically apart in British military history.

Valour

E D Smith
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Author : E D Smith
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750981675

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Since the short and bloody war between Nepal and Britain in 1814-15, Gurkha volunteers, ever mindful of the their motto, 'It is better to die than be a coward', have fought and died for Britain, including in recent years in the Falklands, Afghanistan and Iraq. In the Second World War an astonishing quarter of a million Gurkhas fought aginst Germany and Japan. They have been awarded thirteen Victoria Crosses. Includes detailed appendices include all regimental changes and battle honours.