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The Prostate Storm is one man's journey through prostate disease
and cancer, from diagnosis to treatment and its aftermath. Blunt,
insightful, sometimes funny, author Steve Vogel tackles many of the
big controversies in the prostate world- PSA screening,
overtreatment, the cancer-inflammation-diet connection. This
informative book is a real wake-up call for all men in their
prostate years.
This book is a guide to speaking and pronouncing American English.
It is appropriate for anyone who speaks English as a second
language and wants to improve fluency. It explains the sounds,
structures, organization, and speech patterns of conversational
English as it is used by native speakers. Its emphasis is on the
development of correctness. As a result, you will learn to
understand others and they will understand you more easily. This
will help you achieve greater success and satisfaction in your
personal and professional activities.
'Riveting and vivid ... At the heart of the book is Blake's own
remarkable story, which Vogel tells with some sympathy, if not
approval. It reads like a Hollywood screenplay' Foreign Affairs 'A
fascinating account of Blake's career as a spy ... Blake's story
has been told before, as has the tunnel's, but Steve Vogel pulls
them together accessibly and comprehensibly, along with the wider
political context and entertaining detail about personalities of
the period' Spectator 'Excellent... although there are other books
on Blake, Mr. Vogel's handling of his tale is original and
rewarding... meticulously researched and full of vivid detail' Wall
Street Journal 'A spy thriller that kept me up all night.
Magnificent story-telling' Peter Snow A true Cold War espionage
thriller set around the ultra-secret Berlin Tunnel - where British
officer George Blake must run a high-stakes double cross to
maintain his cover. The ultra-secret "Berlin Tunnel" was dug in the
mid-1950s from the American sector in southwest Berlin and ran
nearly a quarter-mile into the Soviet sector, allowing the CIA and
the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) to tap into critical
KGB and Soviet military underground telecommunication lines. George
Blake, a trusted officer working in a highly sensitive job with
SIS, was privy to every aspect of the plan. Over the course of
eleven months from May 1955 to April 1956, when the Soviets
discovered the tunnel, "Operation Gold" provided seemingly
invaluable intelligence about Soviet capabilities and intentions.
The tunnel was celebrated as an astonishing CIA coup upon its
disclosure, and the agency basked in its new reputation as a bold
and capable intelligence agency that had, for once, outwitted the
KGB. But in 1961, a Polish defector shocked the CIA and SIS by
revealing that Blake was a double agent who had disclosed plans for
the tunnel to the KGB before it was even built. Blake was arrested
and sentenced in 1961 to 42 years in prison, the longest term ever
imposed under modern English law. In the years since, the tunnel
has been labelled a failure, based on the assumption that the
Soviets would never have allowed any information of importance to
be transmitted through the tapped lines. Not so. In a work of
remarkable investigative reporting, Steve Vogel now reveals that
the information picked up by the CIA and SIS was more valuable than
even they believed. But why would the Soviets, knowing full well
that the tunnel existed, have let slip many of their most valuable
secrets? Or did they actually know?
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