LAWRENCE J.C <br/><br/>
The Gurkhas:  200 years of service to the crown / 
J C Lawrence CBE 
 - London :  Unicorn Press,   2015. 
 - xi, 244 pages : illustrations (some colour), map, portraits (some colour) ; 29 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> This book tells Gurkha's remarkable story.  It begins in 1814 when the British were halted in their tracks by a small army of mountain warriors and finishes with a remarkable chapter on the contribution that today's Gurkha's have been making in Afghanistan.  The skirmishes and battles of the intervening years including the two world wars in which fifteen thousand Gurkhas died in service of the Crown. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781910500026 (hbk.) :  40.00 GBP 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>GURKHAS -- HISTORY<br/>GREAT BRITAIN -- ARMY