Craig Lawrence author, military historian and lecturer in strategy

25 years of the RGR!

- 'The Gurkhas: 200 Years of Service to the Crown' by Major General Craig Lawrence (2015) (own best-selling book included here for completeness)

- 'Jai Sixth!: 6th the Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 1817-1994' by James Lunt (1994)

- 'Gurkhas: The Illustrated History' by Peter Harclerode and David Reynolds (2003)

Gurkha soldiers sharpening their kukris in the First World War

- 'The History of British India from 1805-1835, Volume II' by Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)

- 'Defeat into Victory' by Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1956)

- 'The History of British India from 1805-1835, Volume IX' by James Hill and Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)

- 'The Gurkhas: Special Force' by Chris Bellamy (2011)

- 'Burma - The Forgotten War' by Jon Latimer (2004)

- 'Green Shadows: A Gurkha Story' by Denis Sheil-Small

- 'The Victorians at War: 1815-1914 - An Encyclopedia of British Military History' by Harold E Raugh (2004)

- 'The Lineages and Composition of Gurkha Regiments in British Service' by Field Marshal Sir John Chapple (2014)

- 'The Savage Wars of Peace: Soldiers' Voices 1945-89' by Charles Allen (1991)

- 'The Queen's Gurkha Signals: Forty Years' by S C Dexter (1994)

- 'Britain's Gurkha War: The Invasion of Nepal 1814 - 1816' by John Pemble (2008)

- 'The Road Past Mandalay' by John Masters (1961)

- 'The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer' by Nigel Collett (2005)

- 'The Battle of Sobraon' Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

Gurkha adventure thriller

- 'While Memory Serves' by Francis Tuker (1950)

- 'The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War' by Thaddeus Holt (2010)

- 'Gurkha Warriors' by Bob Crew (2004)

- 'Victorian Colonial Warfare: India' by Donald Featherstone (1993)

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- 'Baillie-Ki-Paltan: Being a History of the 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers 1759-1930' by H F Murland (2012)

New strategy book - Getting Strategy Right (Enough) - edited by Craig Lawrence

- 'A Memoire of Major General Sir Rollo Gillespie' by Sir William Thorn (1816)

- 'The Land of the Gurkhas - Or, The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal' by W B Northey (1998)

- 'Fighting General - The Public & Private Campaigns of General Sir Walter Walker' by Tom Pocock

- 'Valour: A History of the Gurkhas' by E D Smith (1997)

- 'Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World' by Niall Ferguson (2003)

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- 'Gurkhas' by Sando Tucci (1985)

- 'The Egyptian Expeditionary Force in World War I: A History of the British-led Campaigns in Egypt, Palestine and Syria' by Michael J Mortlock (2010)

New Royal Gurkha Rifles (RGR 25) book by Craig Lawrence

Gurkha adventure thriller

- 'In Gurkha Company: the British Army Gurkhas, 1948 to the Present' by J P Cross (1986)

- 'A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes: Volume 1' by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai

- 'Gurkha: The Legendary Soldier' by Robin Adshead (1967)

- 'SAS: The Jungle Frontier' by Peter Dickens (1983)

- 'The Indian Army and the King's Enemies 1900 - 1947' by Charles Chenevix Trench (1988)

- 'Imperial Warriors: Britain and the Gurkhas of Nepal' by Tony Gould (1999)

GURKHA research

research resources USED IN WRITING BOOKS ABOUT GUrKHAS

- 'Bugles and a Tiger' by John Masters

RESEARCHING ABOUT GURKHAS AND THEIR HISTORY - FINDING OUT MORE ABOUT GURKHAS

Whilst not exhaustive, some of the books used whilst doing the research for my two Gurkha commemorative histories and my Gurkha action adventure thrillers are listed below. Where available, I have also provided links to Amazon or the Gurkha Museum so that readers can view or order books if required (just click the title). The books in red provide an excellent starting point for people wishing to find out more about Gurkhas.

- 'The Story of the Gurkha VCs' by Maurice Biggs (2012)

- 'Gurkha: The Illustrated History of an Elite Fighting Force' by Christopher Chant (1985)

- 'Journeys Hazardous: Gurkha Clandestine Operations - Borneo 1965' by Brigadier Christopher Bullock (1965)

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200 years of Gurkha history

- 'Warrior Gentlemen: 'Gurkhas' in the Western Imagination' by Lionel Caplan (1995)

- 'Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (Pax Britannica Book 1)' by James Morris (1979)

- 'Lawrence of Arabia' by David Murphy (2012)

- 'Gurkha: 25 Years of The Royal Gurkha Rifles' by Major General Craig Lawrence (2019) (own best-selling book inlcuded here for completeness)

- 'Walkabouts and Laughabouts in the Raj' by Major General F J Loftus-Tottenham (undated).

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