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Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hoch to a poor Jewish family in Solotvino in the Carpathians, then part of Czechoslovakia. A coroner officially ruled Robert Maxwell’s death accidental drowning, while commentators and later books have advanced suicide and assassination theories.
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A mind of my own: my life with Robert Maxwell
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Elisabeth Maxwell
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Ghislaine Maxwell
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Gordon Thomas
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Headington, Oxford
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Lady Ghislaine
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Maxwell Communications
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Mirror Group
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Pergamon Press
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Robert Maxwell
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Solotvino
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The assassination of Robert Maxwell: Israel's superspy