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Royal Pioneer Corps Soldiers: Robert Maxwell, Jack Lee, James Patrick Scully, Arthur James, Francis George Miles

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Description:Chapters: Robert Maxwell, Jack Lee, James Patrick Scully, Arthur James, Francis George Miles. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ian Robert Maxwell MC (10 June 1923 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. Robert Maxwell was born Jn Ludvk Hoch in the small town of Slatinsk Doly, Carpathian Ruthenia, the easternmost province of pre-World War II Czechoslovakia (now Solotvino, Ukraine) into a poor Yiddish-speaking Jewish family. His parents were Mechel Hoch, and Hannah Slomowitz. He had 6 siblings. In 1939, the area was reclaimed by Hungary. Most members of his family were gassed in Auschwitz after Hungary was occupied in 1944 by its former ally, Nazi Germany but he had already escaped, arriving in Britain in 1940 as a 17-year-old refugee. Maxwell joined the British Army Pioneer Corps in 1941 and transferred to the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1943. He was involved in action across Europe from Normandy beaches to Berlin, ranked sergeant. He gained a commission in 1945 and promoted to captain. In January 1945 he received the Military Cross. It was during this time that British Intelligence changed his name several times (Maxwell was in British Intelligence, and this was a means of protecting him from the Germans), finally settling on Ian Robert Maxwell, which was the last name he was using at the end of the war He almost never used the "Ian", however; he only retained it as a vestige of his original name. In 1945, he married Elisabeth "Betty" Meynard, a French Protestant with whom he had nine children with the goal of "recreating the family he lost in the Holocaust". Five of his children were employed within his compa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5409978We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Royal Pioneer Corps Soldiers: Robert Maxwell, Jack Lee, James Patrick Scully, Arthur James, Francis George Miles. To get started finding Royal Pioneer Corps Soldiers: Robert Maxwell, Jack Lee, James Patrick Scully, Arthur James, Francis George Miles, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release
2010
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1156225396

Royal Pioneer Corps Soldiers: Robert Maxwell, Jack Lee, James Patrick Scully, Arthur James, Francis George Miles

Books LLC
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Description: Chapters: Robert Maxwell, Jack Lee, James Patrick Scully, Arthur James, Francis George Miles. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ian Robert Maxwell MC (10 June 1923 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. Robert Maxwell was born Jn Ludvk Hoch in the small town of Slatinsk Doly, Carpathian Ruthenia, the easternmost province of pre-World War II Czechoslovakia (now Solotvino, Ukraine) into a poor Yiddish-speaking Jewish family. His parents were Mechel Hoch, and Hannah Slomowitz. He had 6 siblings. In 1939, the area was reclaimed by Hungary. Most members of his family were gassed in Auschwitz after Hungary was occupied in 1944 by its former ally, Nazi Germany but he had already escaped, arriving in Britain in 1940 as a 17-year-old refugee. Maxwell joined the British Army Pioneer Corps in 1941 and transferred to the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1943. He was involved in action across Europe from Normandy beaches to Berlin, ranked sergeant. He gained a commission in 1945 and promoted to captain. In January 1945 he received the Military Cross. It was during this time that British Intelligence changed his name several times (Maxwell was in British Intelligence, and this was a means of protecting him from the Germans), finally settling on Ian Robert Maxwell, which was the last name he was using at the end of the war He almost never used the "Ian", however; he only retained it as a vestige of his original name. In 1945, he married Elisabeth "Betty" Meynard, a French Protestant with whom he had nine children with the goal of "recreating the family he lost in the Holocaust". Five of his children were employed within his compa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5409978We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Royal Pioneer Corps Soldiers: Robert Maxwell, Jack Lee, James Patrick Scully, Arthur James, Francis George Miles. To get started finding Royal Pioneer Corps Soldiers: Robert Maxwell, Jack Lee, James Patrick Scully, Arthur James, Francis George Miles, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
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Publisher
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Release
2010
ISBN
1156225396

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