Mad Mike Hoare: The Legend A Biography Chris Hoare Signed by the author

Mad Mike Hoare: The Legend A Biography Signed by the author  

Author: Chris Hoare      

Publisher: Partners in Publishing    

Edition: Fourth, Revised 2021 

ISBN: 978-0620798617

Language: English 

Condition: Mint. Clean copy with tight binding. 

Binding: Softcover        

Pages: 306. Print with images

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Mad Mike Hoare became a legend as the leader of the Wild Geese mercenary soldiers in the Congo, and notorious following his failed coup détat in the Seychelles. He fought in the British Army during World War II and in the years after the war he became an adventurer, riding a motorbike from Cape to Cairo, searching for the Lost City of the Kalahari, and becoming the first to run safaris in the Kalahari desert and Okavango delta. As a wind of change blew over Africa, Mike became a mercenary leader in Katanga in 1961. In 1964/5 Mike, now linked to the CIA, led South African mercenaries against communist rebels in the Congo. He and his men rescued hundreds of missionaries from barbarity. Mike licks Che Guevara and becomes the most famous mercenary leader in the world as he crushed the Simba rebel revolt. He went on to work in Rhodesia, Biafra, Cambodia, Angola and Mozambique. In 1977 he was technical advisor to the film The Wild Geese, shot in South Africa; Richard Burton played the Hoare character. In 1981, Mike and his Frothblowers hijacked an Air India Boeing 707 when his coup attempt in the Seychelles goes awry, they are tried in the Supreme Court in Pietermaritzburg and Mike served 33 months in jail before being pardoned.

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