Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. A compeling and evocative autobiography from a serving officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles - among the finest and most feared soliders in the world. The result is a record of war and peace that is rare in its honesty and humility. 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. But even amid the simplicity of mountain life, danger and tragedy lurked. 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. 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. 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 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. Kailash Limbu was in the front line of the fighting in Helmand Province. '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.' So begins this searingly honest memoir by Kailash Limbu, a serving Gurka soldier who undertook five tours of active service in Afghanistan. 2000 on Daraz App > Buy Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Kailash Limbu at. They combine with the story of his time in Helmand to create a unique account of one man's life as a Gurkha.Book Description Hardcover. Kailash's descriptions of Gurkha training and rituals - including how to use the lethal Kukri knife - are eye-opening and fascinating. He grew up in a place without roads or electricity and didn't see a car until he was fifteen. 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 joined the 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1999 and has. 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. : Gurkha Brotherhood: A Story of Childhood and War (9781789292572) by Limbu, Kailash and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Captain Kailash Limbu was born in 1981 in Khebang, one of the most remote villages in Nepal.

He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour operation. Description: 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.

GURKHA by Kailash Limbu