{"id":3211,"date":"2009-09-22T03:27:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T03:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2009-09-22T03:27:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T03:27:14","slug":"the-return-of-colonel-cross-of-the-gurkhas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Colonel Cross of the Gurkhas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41vo7fMSZFL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1934840785?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1934840785\"><strong><em>The Call of Nepal: My Life In the Himalayan Homeland of Britain&#8217;s Gurkha Soldiers<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1934840785\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by <strong>Col. J.P. Cross<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nimblebooks.com\/\">Nimble Books<\/a><\/strong>, a publisher I am proud to be associated with, is rolling out the American edition of the memoirs of the legendary COIN specialist, soldier\u00a0and linguist,<strong>\u00a0Colonel John Philip Cross, of the Gurkhas<\/strong>. Foreword by<strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_D._Kaplan\">Robert D. Kaplan<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Disclosure &#8211; I had a part, albeit a small one, along with<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\"> <strong>Lexington Green<\/strong><\/a>, in connecting Col. Cross with Nimble Books,\u00a0and I could not be more pleased to see this memoir in print. Not many books these days\u00a0start by announcing how modern academics will hate it.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cominganarchy.com\/2006\/04\/09\/hot-from-the-presses\/\">Cross was the focus of a story by Kaplan <\/a>in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200605\/nepal-gurkhas\"><strong><em>The Atlantic Monthly<\/em><\/strong> magazine in 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Review soon to come&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.playpark.net\/images\/uploads\/Gurkha-knife.jpg\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Call of Nepal: My Life In the Himalayan Homeland of Britain&#8217;s Gurkha Soldiers\u00a0by Col. J.P. Cross 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\u00a0and linguist,\u00a0Colonel John Philip Cross, of the Gurkhas. Foreword by Robert D. Kaplan.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,350,101,420,133,20,126,471,215,521,51,560,199,469,39,367,571,298,18,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-army","category-asia","category-authors","category-book","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-cultural-intelligence","category-culture","category-geography","category-history","category-india","category-insurgency","category-linguistics","category-military","category-military-history","category-nimble-books","category-the-atlantic","category-war","category-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}