Gurkha
- Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas
- By: Colour-Sergeant Kailash Limbu
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Military & War
Publisher's 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 48-hour operation.
In the end he and his men were under siege for 31 days - one of the longest such sieges in the whole of the Afghan campaign. Kailash Limbu recalls the terrifying and exciting details of those 31 days - in which they killed an estimated 100 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 15.
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.
©2016 Kailash Limbu (P)2016 Hachette Audio UK
Alex –
A great insight
A great insight about Gurkhas and the role they have with the British army. Defiantly worth reading!
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Ujwal B. –
Not well narrated.
The story is ok, but editing was not good. Also narrated with a wrong accent and names and places are pronounced incorrectly. The person narrating the book should have learner how to pronounce Nepalese names and places correctly before recording.