{"id":29,"date":"2026-04-29T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:28:07","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/index.php\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--\n  GOLDEN PINEAPPLE PRESS \u2014 About the Author page\n  Paste into WordPress Code Editor\n--><\/p>\n<style>\n@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=EB+Garamond:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&family=Lora:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap');<\/p>\n<p>.gpp-page { font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, serif; background: #1C3557; color: #F5EADC; margin: 0; padding: 0; }\n.gpp-page * { box-sizing: border-box; }<\/p>\n<p>.gpp-page-header { background: #0F1E37; padding: 40px 60px; border-bottom: 3px solid #D4A011; }\n.gpp-page-header h1 { font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-size: 38px; font-weight: 700; color: #F5EADC; margin: 0; }\n.gpp-header-rule { width: 50px; height: 3px; background: #D4A011; margin-top: 14px; }<\/p>\n<p>.gpp-author-section { padding: 50px 60px; display: flex; gap: 50px; align-items: flex-start; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(212,160,17,0.2); }\n.gpp-author-photo { flex-shrink: 0; }\n.gpp-author-photo img { width: 280px; height: 350px; object-fit: cover; object-position: center top; border: 2px solid #D4A011; display: block; }\n.gpp-author-content { flex: 1; }\n.gpp-author-name { font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; color: #D4A011; margin: 0 0 6px; }\n.gpp-author-role { font-size: 13px; color: #7080A0; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 22px; }\n.gpp-author-rule { width: 100%; height: 1px; background: rgba(212,160,17,0.3); margin-bottom: 22px; }\n.gpp-author-bio { font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.85; color: #C0B8A8; margin-bottom: 18px; }<\/p>\n<p>.gpp-cta { background: #0F1E37; padding: 40px 60px; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center; border-top: 1px solid rgba(212,160,17,0.3); }\n.gpp-cta-text h3 { font-family: 'EB Garamond', serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; color: #F5EADC; margin: 0 0 6px; }\n.gpp-cta-text p { font-size: 13px; color: #7080A0; margin: 0; }\n.gpp-btn-primary { background: #D4A011; color: #0F1E37; padding: 12px 28px; font-family: 'Lora', serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; }<\/p>\n<p>@media (max-width: 768px) {\n  .gpp-author-section { flex-direction: column; padding: 30px 20px; }\n  .gpp-author-photo img { width: 200px; height: 250px; }\n  .gpp-page-header { padding: 30px 20px; }\n  .gpp-cta { flex-direction: column; gap: 20px; padding: 30px 20px; }\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"gpp-page\">\n<div class=\"gpp-page-header\">\n<h1>About the Author<\/h1>\n<div class=\"gpp-header-rule\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-author-section\">\n<div class=\"gpp-author-photo\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/author_photo.png\" alt=\"Berdj Anastassian\">\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-author-content\">\n<div class=\"gpp-author-name\">Berdj Anastassian<\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-author-role\">Author &nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp; Diamond expert &nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp; Airline pilot instructor &amp; examiner<\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-author-rule\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"gpp-author-bio\">Berdj Anastassian grew up in Belgium, but his life has never stayed within its borders. Extended postings across three continents \u2014 Central Africa, Southern Africa, East Asia and the Korean Peninsula \u2014 and periodic visits to Russia, combined with recurring professional engagements across the Indian subcontinent and the Far East, shaped a worldview that few armchair historians can claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-author-bio\">His passion for military history was sparked in his early teens by the great war films of the era \u2014 among them the 1976 <em>Midway<\/em> \u2014 and never left him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-author-bio\">A man of several worlds, Anastassian has built a career at the intersection of precision, expertise and international reach. He spent twelve months in Germany as a military translator attached to the Belgian General Staff, where \u2014 as a private \u2014 he found himself debating military history over long evenings with colonels and generals. He later entered the professional diamond trade, and today works as a financial risk consultant and internationally recognised judicial expert in the diamond industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-author-bio\">His second passion is aviation. He holds a glider pilot&#8217;s licence earned at sixteen, has worked his way through the ranks, and today serves as an airline pilot instructor and examiner, and as a civilian operator for the Belgian Air Force. Certain chapters of that aviation career, spanning nearly two decades in some of the world&#8217;s most demanding operational environments, remain outside the scope of any biography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-author-bio\"><em>The Battle of Midway, by the Minute<\/em> was born during the Covid lockdown of March 2020, when he set aside his e-reader and decided to write the book himself. What followed was five years of research across the finest published works on the subject, correspondence with acclaimed historians including Mark Stille and the authors of <em>Shattered Sword<\/em>, and a determination to present one of history&#8217;s most complex naval battles in a way that any intelligent reader \u2014 not just the specialist \u2014 can follow, understand and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpp-author-bio\">This is his first book.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gpp-cta\">\n<div class=\"gpp-cta-text\">\n<h3>Want to read the book?<\/h3>\n<p>The Battle of Midway, by the Minute is available now in hardcover and paperback.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <a href=\"\/the-book\" class=\"gpp-btn-primary\">Discover the book &#8594;<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Author Berdj Anastassian Author &nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp; Diamond expert &nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp; Airline pilot instructor &amp; examiner Berdj Anastassian grew up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenpineapplepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}