The Gurkhas – A True Story’ is a complete book for, to and by a Gurkha. It covers the Gurkhas’ story from the start to the very present albeit in brief. The book not only deals with the Gurkhas history but also its ramifications in the community as well as the nation as a whole. The Gurkhas is an institution with over 200-year-old history and renowned to the world as the brave of the braves. The Gurkhas with their famous kukri had no peers in both WW1 and WW2, and they are probably the only such force in the world which had won wars by name alone. Not everyone from Nepal could become a Gurkha. Only men from four particular tribes of Nepal could join the army, and the British called them 'The Martial Race.' Tim I Gurung was born in 1962 at a GURUNG village called Dhampus, Kaski District in the Mid-Western part of Nepal. He joined the British Gurkhas at the tender age of 17 as his grandfathers and uncles did before him.