Robert Maxwell, A Recall : Rising from Rags & Falling from Grace - E-book - ePub

Thirty years ago in the year 1991, the naked body of a multi-millionaire British business tycoon was found by a fisherman off the coast of the Canary Islands. It was officially identified as the body of Robert Maxwell, the man whose reputation oscillates violently between a business tycoon and that of a fraudster even three decades after his death. Who was Robert Maxwell? Was he a conman or just a media mogul whose business plans had gone awry? Thirty years after his death, Robert Maxwell's life and death are still a mystery to the world.
This book is a humble attempt at trying to shed some light on the extraordinarily fascinating life and mysterious death of the man who built a thriving, colossal business empire and eventually became the very reason for its collapse. From living in a dingy wooden shack and rising to become an international business magnate, Robert Maxwell's life is the quintessential rags to riches story. From his humble beginnings in a remote Czechoslovakian hamlet to being an indispensable part of the UK's publishing sphere, Maxwell had come a long way.
He never let the poor background of his family or its shortcomings deter his prosperity and financial success in life. Born a Jew, Maxwell's timely decision to move to the United Kingdom is what let him escape the grueling life that the Jews were subjected to during the Second World War era. He lost almost all his family to Holocaust. Maxwell traveled, as far from his roots as possible, but he still couldn't evade his eventual collapse.