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Francis Pike


Born
Leicester, The United Kingdom
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Genre
History


Francis Pike is an historian and journalist. Born in 1955, he attended Uppingham School in Rutland and read Economics at the University of Paris before attending Selwyn College, Cambridge from where he graduated with a MA (Hons) in History in 1976. He lived and worked for 20 years in Japan, China and India as an economic and political strategist and in this capacity he advised a number of financial institutions as well as governments.

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Average rating: 4.26 · 215 ratings · 19 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors
Hirohito's War: The Pacific...
4.31 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions
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Empires at War: A Short His...
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