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Robert Maxwell Photos
 Robert Maxwell was born into a poor Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish family in the small town of Slatinské Doly in Czechoslovakia (now Solotvyno, Ukraine). |  Robert's parents were Mechel Hoch and Hannah Slomowitz. He had six siblings. Most of his family died in Auschwitz after the Nazis occupied the area in 1944. |  Early in his life, Maxwell escaped from Nazi occupation, joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile in World War II and was decorated after active service in the British Army |
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 Maxwell the soldier being awarded the Military Cross by Field-Marshall Montgomery, for his matchless, glorious heroism on the battlefield. |  Robert in his early days as a Member of Parliament for Buckingham. He was first elected 1964. |  Robert Maxwell, with his wife Betty and their twin daughters in 1950. The couple had nine children in total. |
 The Labour Party campaigner canvassing in Buckingham in 1974. He lost his seat and was ill with melancholia for some weeks afterwards |  Robert Maxwell chatting with Harold Wilson, then Prime Minister and the Mayor of Bletchley in 1965. |  The Maxwell family in 1981. Back row: (from left) Anne, R.M., Ghislaine, Isabel, Kevin. Front row: Christine, Ian, Betty (after gaining her D.Phil degree) and Phillip. |
 R.M. giving a book to Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow (1978). Unfortunately, the title of the book and the name of it's author were not disclosed. Perhaps a hungover reporter was covering the event. |  Bob's birthday celebrations at Headington Hill Hall, Oxford. 10th June 1988. |  In 1984, Maxwell acquired Mirror Group Newspapers and declared that his editors would be "free to produce the news without interference". |
 Bob recovering from the removal of his left lung, making lightweight of his illness by playing cards with other patients |  Robert Maxwell with the Author, Eleanor Berry. Click to find out about more about their unique relationship. |  The author's favourite photograph of 'Cap'n Bob'. It is the first thing she sees by her bed when she wakes up in the morning. |
 The Lady Ghislaine. The beautiful white vessel to which the Reaper came, to take its owner's soul |  R.M. is finally laid to rest. May his stormy soul find peace. |  Eleanor Berry's new novel is due to be released in April 2019. Here we see the benevolent, unknown side of Robert Maxwell. He was a surrogate father to Eleanor and she believes he saved her life. |
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