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Robert Maxwell’s rise is one of the most extreme rags-to-power arcs of the 20th century. Born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch in 1923 in a poor Jewish family in what is now Ukraine, he survived the Holocaust, lost most of his family, and arrived in Britain as a refugee with virtually nothing. Through ambition, calculation, and a relentless instinct for leverage, he built a publishing empire that eventually centered around Pergamon Press and later the Mirror Group newspapers. Maxwell cultivated po
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