Re: [Marxism] Broué's work in English

["Paul Flewers" <trusscott.foundation@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll be glad to see Broué's book on Germany avaliable to an English-speaking
audience, not least because I spent many hours subbing and proofing the text
and otherwise preparing it for publication. It was translated into English
about 15 years ago by John Archer, a life-long Trotskyist in Britain who
died a few years back, and I was handed the Word files about eight years
back. However, John did not translate the footnotes (hundreds of them), and
this was done by Ian Birchall, who also checked the translation. I was
handling the preparation of the book for Porcupine Press; fortunately,
thanks to Sebastian Budgen, the whole operation was taken off my hands and
passed over to Brillo, the noted Dutch publishing house.

Although the book was written without access to Eastern bloc archival
material, this was of course impossible 35 years back, it remains a superb
historical work. There's nothing quite like it in the English language both
in its scope -- it's almost 1000 pages -- and in its political direction.
Whilst it's a work of prodigious academic strength, it's also a work of a
committed revolutionary Marxist. Having read through it several times, I
thoroughly recommend it.

Broué is a prolific writer. List members who can read French (sadly, I'm a
typical product of the British education system and therefore monolingual)
should also read his biographies of Trotsky and Rakovsky, and his history of
the Communist International, all long and detailed works -- and all
deserving to be translated into English.

Paul F





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