GUNNERS AT THE BATTLEFRONT’ is a career biography of a soldier who has tried to communicate his passion for the nation, having served it with dedication and fervour for over 30 years, and while doing so is narrating to fellow citizens the sacrifices, triumphs and tribulations that a service career gives you.
This book is an account of the Battle assault in Chhamb-Jaurian Sector in Dec 1971 where our troops and defences faced a heavy and devastating onslaught from the enemy as a result of a flawed strategy.  
This book describes the real valour that was witnessed on ground, for the world to see, and attempts to show respect and endearment to the families of the departed souls killed in action.
Further, the book captures soldiering in the North East sector facing the Chinese PLA in 1973 despite the lack of basic infrastructure. 
And finally it culminates with Lt Col AK Kher’s tour in the Siachen Glacier where he was among the first pioneers to set up a Medium Artillery Gun Battery. To deploy heavy medium guns up the hill was an unachievable task and the book captures the difficulties that had to be overcome to accomplish this arduous task beautifully. Thereafter the striking of the enemy at will is described in a most informative and revealing way.
The book ends with humour in Army life which brings out the humane part of soldiering.

RAVI KHER son of Lt Col AK Kher, grew up in Military Cantonments. The discipline inculcated then, helped him develop into a career Banker and a commodity trader having spent 17 years in East Asia. The Covid-19 lockdown turned out to be a blessing in disguise as it allowed time to be devoted to writing this book which in the usual circumstances would have been impossible.

ASHOK KUMAR KHER was born in 1948 and grew up in Vicharnag, a suburb of Srinagar, Kashmir. As a child he had heard first hand stories of the attack by the Pakistani tribal Lashkar on Kashmir in 1947. In 1965 he saw for himself the war clouds forming over India and this motivated him to join the Army. 
In 1967, his dream came true when he was selected for the Short Service Commission (Non Technical) Officers’ Training School Madras and passed out in June 1968. Upon passing out he joined an Artillery Regiment, 127 Division Locating Battery as a Second Lieutenant.  
In 32 years of service Lt Col Kher has had a rewarding career where he got the unique opportunity to serve the entire spectrum of our borders along our two fierce adversaries-Pakistan and China.
In 2000, Lt Col AK Kher hung up his boots and is leading a retired life.
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