Pike, Douglas Eugene, 1924-
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- Summary
- Douglas Eugene Pike was a leading American historian and foremost scholar on the Vietnam War and the Viet Cong based from 1997 onward at Texas Tech University. In 1960, Pike became a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Information Agency and was sent to South Vietnam. Aside from serving in Saigon he had assignments in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei, and Washington, but Vietnam was the focus of most of his career. In 1981 he retired from the Foreign Service and became director of the Indochina Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Included in his duties in that position were serving as director of the Indochina Archive and editor of Indochina Chronology, published quarterly beginning in 1982. He was considered an expert on the National Liberation Front and NVA before his death in 2002. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][3][4][5][6]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1924 [2]
- 1924-07-27 [5]
- Birth Place
- Cass Lake, Minn. [3]
- Cass Lake [5]
- Died
- 2002-05-13 [3][5]
- Death Place
- Lubbock, Tex. [3]
- Lubbock [5]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- historian [5]
- diplomat [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. National Library of Korea
- 5. Wikidata
- 6. Library of Congress
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