OBITUARY | Michael ‘Mad Mike’ Hoare: Wild Geese mercenary leader 1919-2020
World fame in the Congo followed by farce and ignominy in the Seychelles
09 February 2020 - 00:00
Michael “Mad Mike” Hoare, who has died in Durban at the age of 100, was one of the most famous mercenaries in the world after his exploits in the Congo in the early 1960s inspired the 1978 movie The Wild Geese, in which he was played by Richard Burton...
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