Complex sentence: Edward Victor Gordon Kiernan (4 September 1913--17 February 2009) was a British Marxist historian and a member of the Communist Party Historians Group was recognised as one of the most wide-ranging of global historians.
Split into simpler sentences: Edward Victor Gordon Kiernan (4 September 1913--17 February 2009) was a British Marxist historian and a member of the Communist Party Historians Group. He was recognised as one of the most wide-ranging of global historians.