The Target Is Destroyed

By Seymour M. Hersh

Book Overview

The Target Is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew by Seymour M. Hersh 1986 Hardcover This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394542614
• ISBN13: 9780394542614
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Target is Destroyed

Seymour Hersh did an excellent job investigating, down to the Air Force people sitting at their racks and their "nicknames". Can't wait to read another one of his books.

Interesting, eh what....

This book brings it all home. Those disbelievers have their necks screwed on backwards. Wake up! This is how WAR is fought! This is WHY wars are fought! This is WHAT really happens in the light of day! and the darkness of moonless nights. Errors are made, therefore tragedy. Those who are educated must see that our countries are groomed towards certain destinies controlled by those who are evil and those who are not so evil, but trained to respond in the best way possible. Very well written.

Readable, and right on

Hersh's book is an excellent primer on the U.S. intelligence community. (In fact, I recently read it for an intelligence class at American University taught by the genial and wise Professor John Macartney.) Hersh, through hundreds of interviews with people involved with the U.S. response to the KAL007 shootdown, pieces together a workable theory about why the Soviets would shoot down the plane. And most of his thesis was redeemed when the Russians finally handed over the black box from the plane after the collapse of the U.S.S.R. The book presents complex ideas clearly, and no matter what else you think of Hersh's writing or his politics, you will find this book valuable.