Brothers in arms

In 2016, I completed the last of five active service tours of Afghanistan with the British Army. As a soldier in the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Gurkha Rifles, I was in the front line of the fighting in Helmand Province between 2006 and 2014. I was also, in 2016, deployed in the Afghan capital, Kabul. On dangerous resupply missions and offensive patrols, we Gurkhas came under frequent attack from Taliban fighters and other insurgents.

None of us will ever forget what we went through together. The book is my personal story about what it was like to serve worldwide, including those five active tours in Afghanistan. It is about what I felt, and what we had done and gone through while we were fighting behind the enemies’ lines as a brotherhood.