In the early morning hours of August 31, 1983, a single Soviet Interceptor sent a missile in the direction of a Korean Airlines 747 jumbo jet carrying 269 passengers and crew on a flight from Anchorage, Alaska to Seoul, Korea. For years, it was believed that the "target" was "destroyed", as the interceptor's pilot, Major Osipovich, had reported seconds after the attack.

In a dramatic turn of events, evidence has now surfaced (some quite literally from the bottom of the sea) proving that KAL 007 had indeed ditched successfully off the shores of tiny Moneron Island, and that the passengers and crew were rescued to be held captive in the former Soviet Union.

Here, in this book, are the unparalleled transcripts and chronicling of the whole Soviet hierarchy from the Commander of the Far East Military District down to Major Osipovich squeezing the trigger.

Here are the high level, and sometimes vehement, interchanges that resulted in both the shooting down and the ordering of rescue missions involving KGB patrol boats, helicopters, and civilian trawlers around Moneron.

And, here finally, is the evidence we need to bring our people home.

The son-in-law of one of the passengers of the ill-fated Korean Air Lines Flight 007, shot down by a Russian air-to-air missile in 1983, Bert Schlossberg has dedicated the past ten years to researching the question of passenger rescue and survival, as well as Soviet resistance to disclosure connected with this mysterious flight.

The author was educated at Brooklyn College receiving the Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy in 1961, and at New York University receiving the Master's Degree in Near Eastern Studies in 1969. He has taught in the fields of Near Eastern Language and Literature, as well as in the areas of Old and New Testaments at Sarah Lawrence and C.W. Post colleges in New York. After immigrating to Israel in 1988, he taught at Tel Aviv University and Israel's war college-the Inter Services Command and Staff College.

He resides in Jerusalem with his beautiful wife of 25 years, Exaltacion. They have four children-Charisma Joy, Daniel Abraham, Judith Hope, and Jonathan David.