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Coldstream Guards
Mad Mike Hoare: How a Businessman Became a Legendary Mercenary
By John W. Osborn, Jr.With the exception of the French Foreign Legion, the concept of the mercenary, or soldier of fortune, seemed extinct after World War II. Read more