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The British Super-Soldier Who Killed A Nation

Behind the Bastards

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The History of the British Empire

The British liked the Gorkas because they were loyal and just incredibly deadly. They carry these big knives called kukris. If an allied soldier took boots off of a dead German, he might get cut by a Gherka. It's a possibly apocryphal story, but variants of it are still told today.

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