" Showing no regard for his own safety, he led his section in the difficult job of clearing the enemy out of the buildings, inflicting many casualties and causing the remainder to withdraw." After the war, Maxwell founded Pergamon Press and became a Labour MP before acquiring Mirror Group Newspapers in 1984. By 1991 his business interests were heavily in debt and in November that year he was lost at sea in mysterious circumstances while on a cruise off the Canaries. After his death it emerged he had taken cash from pension funds to keep his companies going.