The Return of Colonel Cross of the Gurkhas
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Call of Nepal: My Life In the Himalayan Homeland of Britain’s Gurkha Soldiers
Nimble Books, a publisher I am proud to be associated with, is rolling out the American edition of the memoirs of the legendary COIN specialist, soldier and linguist, Colonel John Philip Cross, of the Gurkhas. Foreword by Robert D. Kaplan. Disclosure – I had a part, albeit a small one, along with Lexington Green, in connecting Col. Cross with Nimble Books, and I could not be more pleased to see this memoir in print. Not many books these days start by announcing how modern academics will hate it.
Cross was the focus of a story by Kaplan in The Atlantic Monthly magazine in 2006.
Review soon to come….
