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.