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Nov 7, 2002 · 159 ratings13 reviews. Robert Maxwell—ruthless, volatile, defiant; a man of gargantuan appetites, for food, wine, women, power, money—unabashedly bared his ambition to the world, as he strove to build a publishing empire. But, throughout his career, Robert Maxwell also nurtured another, more driving, and—until now—altogether hidden ...
Dec 30, 2021 · Preston said another dark star in the Maxwell family orbit was created by a grievous injury to Robert and Elizabeth Maxwell’s firstborn, Michael who fell into a coma at the age of 15 after a car ...
Jun 25, 2021 · As Peter Jay, Maxwell’s former chief of newspaper staff, explains in Epstein’s Shadow, Robert Maxwell was born Ludvik Hoch in 1923. As an Orthodox Jew, he grew up in one of the most ...
Dec 16, 2003 · Mossad's representative for these extremely sensitive transactions costing tens of millions of dollars in China, Russia, India, and twenty other countries was Robert Maxwell. Only Maxwell was also helping himself to some of Mossad's profits -- as well as 750 million from his employees' pension fund -- in desperate attempts to maintain his empire and to meet the demands of increasingly ...
- Gordon Thomas, Martin Dillon
Mar 30, 2021 · A fascinating insight into the chameleon like - or make believe - character of a polyglot Robert Maxwell whose life moved full circle. Born into an observant Jewish family in Czechoslovakia whose family perished in the Holocaust, recreated himself as a British Army officer, successively became a Protestant, a Labour MP, a global publishing tycoon - only to die mysteriously off his yacht ...
- John Preston
Mar 29, 2001 · Robert Maxwell was born Jan Ludvik Hoch in Slatinske Doly in the Carpathian mountains, an area of extreme poverty, in Czechslovakia on 10 June, 1923. His orthodox Jewish parents were victims of the Nazis, and he only just managed to escape the concentration camps to arrive in Britain in 1940. Describing himself as "self educated", he spoke ...
Aug 9, 2013 · JTA — Elisabeth Maxwell, an expert on the Holocaust and the widow of the late media tycoon Robert Maxwell, has died at the age of 92. Maxwell, who was not Jewish, devoted her adult life to ...
