The book, MH17 – The story of the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner, is about an event that shocked the world on July 17, 2014. A passenger plane was shot down at 33,000 feet killing all 298 people on board. The book provides answers to the key questions arising from the What missile destroyed the gigantic Boeing 777? What kind of weapon fired the missile? Where was the missile fired from? Who fired it? Why? Was it accidental or intentional? Why the shooting constituted an international war crime? Who was responsible?
Very good, well-researched and thoughtful account of what happened on 17/7/14 - leading up to the attack, the shooting down itself, and the events which occurred after. Read this book for a concise but thorough summation of all that we know so far, gathered from a wide variety of sources, and the questions that remain. We are left in no doubt about the exact site the missile was fired from, what exactly was fired, whose it was and where it came from; and that the recovery operation in the first days at the crash site was both a cover up and a botch up. Less certain with the currently available evidence are the reason MH17 was hit, deliberately or accidentally, and the identities of the persons whose finger was on the trigger and who gave the final order to shoot...