High Explosive: A Vagrom Tale

by Gordon Phillips

Anti-war and disarmament satire. A scientist working for the W.E.W (the War to End War Committee), a secret weapons development branch of the British government, invents the Beta Plus Solution, a substance which causes living creatures, whatever their size, to be rapidly converted into a living mass of high explosive.

Basis for the 1933 Adrian Brunel film I'm an Explosive .

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1925