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Desperate Encounters The 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles of the Punjab Frontier Force

Desperate Encounters The 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles of the Punjab Frontier Force

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Desperate Encounters
Stories of The 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles of the Punjab Frontier Force

By R.M. Maxwell.

Published by The Pentland Press, Edinburgh, 1986. First Edition. Hardback book with dust jacket. 264 pages. Illustrated.

Very good clean copy in a good dust jacket. No writing or names.

This book describes, with particular reference to the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, the expiditions, campaigns and wars fought between 1858 and 1947 for the protection of India and the British Empire in countries as far apart as Italy, Gallipoli, Iraq, Persia, India, Afghanistan and Burma.

The book has 24 maps and 9 illustrations and gives a full description of the immense contribution made by the Gurkha Brigade as a whole.
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