10 things no one tells you before you join the Gurkhas

Johnny Fenn, former Gurkha Officer turned professional photographer has written an article for The Telegraph. He also has a new book out – Life and Light in the Middle Hills – and we’ve agreed to do a book swap.

I think I may be ahead in this particular barter deal.

SPIN ZHIRA: Old Man in Helmand is available as an Amazon Kindle e-book

SPIN ZHIRA: Old Man in Helmand is the unauthorised, unvarnished and irreverent story of one man’s midlife crisis on the front line of the most dangerous district in Afghanistan where the locals haven’t forgiven the British for the occupation of 1842 or for the Russian Invasion of 1979. Of course, all infidels look the same so you can’t really tell them apart.