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- 'The Gurkhas: 200 Years of Service to the Crown' by Major General Craig Lawrence (2015) (own 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

- '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)

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

- '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

Eight Gurkhas circa 1815

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

GURKHA REFERENCE MATERIAL

MATERIAL USED IN WRITING BOOKS ABOUT GRUKHAS

- 'Bugles and a Tiger' by John Masters

- '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)

- '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)

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

Sirmoor Rifles (Gurkhas) on Delhi Ridge in 1857

- 'The Gurkhas: The Inside Story of the World's Most Feared Soldiers' by John Parker (2000)

- 'Historical Dictionary of the British Empire, Volume 1' edited by James S Olson and Robert Shadle (1996)

- 'History of the Political and Military Transactions in India, Vol. 1 of 2 (1813-1823)' by Henry T Prinsep (1820)

- 'The British Army in Mesopotamia 1914 - 1918' by Paul Knight (2013)

- 'Britain's Gurkhas' by Christopher Bullock (2009)

- '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)

Gurkhas in Afghanistan

- '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)

- '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)

Whilst not exhaustive, some of the books used as references in writing the commemorative Gurkha history 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.