{"id":24,"date":"2014-11-22T01:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T01:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2015-05-24T02:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T02:07:44","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/A-Road-from-Damascus-e1416620683366.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/A-Road-from-Damascus-e1416620683366.jpg?resize=64%2C100\" alt=\"A Road from Damascus\" width=\"64\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>A Road from Damascus<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Poppy-Press-Logo-symbol.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Poppy-Press-Logo-symbol.jpg?resize=45%2C46\" alt=\"Poppy Press Logo symbol\" width=\"45\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a>The Poppy Press Australia 1992 ISBN 0-646-11440-9<br \/>\neBook on Amazon 2010 ISBN 978-0-646-11440-8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy this book at<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Balderstone\/e\/B0064I1QQE\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Balderstone\/e\/B0064I1QQE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/The-Baghdad-Chameleon-e1416620629145.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/The-Baghdad-Chameleon-e1416620629145.jpg?resize=73%2C100\" alt=\"The Baghdad Chameleon\" width=\"73\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>The Baghdad Chameleon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Poppy-Press-Logo-symbol.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Poppy-Press-Logo-symbol.jpg?resize=45%2C46\" alt=\"Poppy Press Logo symbol\" width=\"45\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a>The Poppy Press Australia 2012 ISBN 978-0-646-57495-0<br \/>\neBook on Amazon 2011 ISBN 978-0-9943464-1-4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy this book at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Balderstone\/e\/B0064I1QQE\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Balderstone\/e\/B0064I1QQE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Shining-the-Boot-of-a-Nation-e1416620559648.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Shining-the-Boot-of-a-Nation-e1416620559648.jpg?resize=71%2C100\" alt=\"Shining the Boot of a Nation\" width=\"71\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Shining the Boot of a Nation: a Portrait of Egypt after Nasser<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Poppy-Press-Logo-symbol.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Poppy-Press-Logo-symbol.jpg?resize=45%2C46\" alt=\"Poppy Press Logo symbol\" width=\"45\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a>The Poppy Press Australia eBook on Amazon 2014 ISBN 978-0-646-92445-8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy this book at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Balderstone\/e\/B0064I1QQE\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Balderstone\/e\/B0064I1QQE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MEE-cover-icon.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MEE-cover-icon.jpeg?resize=50%2C80\" alt=\"MEE cover icon\" width=\"50\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><strong>Middle East Encounters<\/strong>: Extracts from letters home &amp; selected articles published in \u2018The Age\u2019 and \u2018The Sydney Morning Herald\u2019 1977-1984<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Poppy-Press-Logo-symbol.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Poppy-Press-Logo-symbol.jpg?resize=45%2C46\" alt=\"Poppy Press Logo symbol\" width=\"45\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a>The Poppy Press Australia eBook on Amazon 2015 ISBN\u00a0978-0-9943464-0-7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy this book at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Balderstone\/e\/B0064I1QQE\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Balderstone\/e\/B0064I1QQE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Road from Damascus The Poppy Press Australia 1992 ISBN 0-646-11440-9 eBook on Amazon 2010 ISBN 978-0-646-11440-8 Buy this book at\u00a0http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Balderstone\/e\/B0064I1QQE &nbsp; The Baghdad Chameleon The Poppy Press Australia 2012 ISBN 978-0-646-57495-0 eBook on Amazon 2011 ISBN 978-0-9943464-1-4 Buy this book at\u00a0http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Balderstone\/e\/B0064I1QQE &nbsp; Shining the Boot of a Nation: a Portrait of Egypt after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Books - David Balderstone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbalderstone.com\/?page_id=24\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Books - David Balderstone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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