Ghurka books

> Now I need a book -- anyone recommend an account of

May I suggest "Echoes of War: A Child at Arms" by Patrick Davis?

This is a first person account of a British officer assigned to a Gurkha

battalion in Burma, in WWII.  This is not a 'hard-core history' but more
of a pleasant, easy read.

As a matter of fact I buy all of the "Echoes of War" series on sight and I
have yet to be disappointed. Some are "fiction" but all are written by folks
that have been there with a true eye toward what it was like. My favorite book
of all time is in this series: "Winged Victory" by V.M. Yeates, a very, very
haunting story of WWI fighter pilots. I can not recommend this book too much.

Cheers,