John Lewis Gaddis The Cold War: A New History (1st ed. ed.) place: New York, publisher: Penguin Books
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When Pope John Paul II kissed the ground at the Warsaw airport he began the process by which communism in Poland – and ultimately elsewhere in Europe – would come to an end.
— John Lewis Gaddis on Pope John Paul II
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About John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) is an American historian and the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University.
About John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) is an American historian and the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University.
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