Particularly appropriate at this time when the fate of the Gurkha ex-soldiers is being debated, is the first part of John Masters' excellent autobiography: "Bugles and a Tiger".
He was commissioned from Sandhurst into the Gurkhas before the war and served with them in India, on the NW Frontier and, later, Mesopotamia and Burma. Well written, amusing, informative and touching, it paints a wonderful picture of those splendid fighting men and of service in India before the war.