Book Review
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Book Review |
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Author :
AVM Horton |
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Abstract:
This book, published to celebrate two hundred years of uninterrupted Gurkha service to the British Crown, a narrative ofa in comprises month-long operation Helmand province in mid-2006, interweaved with flashbacks covering the authors earlier life, along with supplementary sections discussing Nepalese history, society, religion, traditions, and relaxations. The opening chapter is lifted out of context in order to provide a ‘cliff-hanger’ (pp. 5-11), designed to hook the interest of readers, who have to wait until pp. 264-8 to discover that the event was something of a damp squib. The volume is dedicated to Lance Corporal Gajbahadur Gurung (1985-2012), a courageous and talented comrade of the author who was killed-in-action during a later operation in Afghanistan (page v, where the name is misspelled ‘Guring’, and pp. 28, 62, 64-5, 69, 329-30).
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| DOI: https://doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2015-751Q-09 |
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How to cite:
AVM Horton. (2015). Book Review. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXXV (96) : 267-270 |
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