Obituary: Pierre Broué

The French revolutionary militant and Marxist historian, Pierre Broué who has died aged 79 of prostate cancer, was the author of some 20 books. He made his name with La Révolution Et La Guerre D'Espagne (1961), written jointly with Emile Témime. Published in Britain in 1972 as The Revolution And The Civil War In Spain, this 550-page book, in the authors' polemical and romantic introduction, "intended, in the face of ignorance, neglect, and falsification, to recreate this struggle in the most truthful way possible".