 He died on July 29, 2017.Piotr Wandycz was a noted authority on Eastern and Central European history.His many books include "France and Her Eastern Allies, 1919-1925", which won the 1962 American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize; "The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936", which received the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; and "The Price of Freedom