Gurkha Odyssey

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