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An undercover reporter. An elaborate ruse to get committed in an asylum to discover the story of lifetime. It should be a simple enough assignment; pretend to be crazy, get inside, observe, have someone to certify you are cured, and then get out. The story will be published and awards may be given to the intrepid reporter who braved the high walls of a nuthouse in search of the truth.
However, for reporter George Vine, the assignment is far from being exciting. It is scary and anxiety-provoking, for deep inside him, George thinks that he is not really George, but Napoleon Bonaparte in George’s body. Is he mad for thinking he is Napoleon? Is he a crazy man pretending to be sane pretending to be mad just to enter the sanitarium? Your concept of reality and fiction will certainly be challenged in the devious twists and turns of this story by award-winning mystery and science fiction writer Fredric Brown.
More than this novella, however, this collection also gathers some of Brown’s great short stories. There’s a story of the last Martian village, a Russian space traveling mouse called Mitkey, the world as perceived by the winning pieces in a chess game, and a picture sent by aliens to a painter for a writer to write a story about. In all these, Brown displayed his wit and humor, his innovative way of writing, and his penchant for playing with words. “A stand-up comic,” a reviewer once called Brown, and it is never truer than in this collection of his work.
This collections contains the stories: Come and Go Mad, Star Mouse, Recessional, Earthman Bearing Gifts, The Frownzly Florgels, and The End
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Analyzing both world wars, in Chemical Warfare Brown argues that the restraints on use of chemical warfare were complex and often unpredictable and ranged from the political to the technological.He offers a detailed examination of American chemical warfare policy,as it was shaped by industry and public sentiment, as well as national and military leaders. The organization of the book into three parts reflects the importance of battlefield experiences during the First World War and of international political restraints as they evolved during the interwar years and culminated in “no first use” policies by major powers in World War II. ... Read more

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A Weapon that Wasn't Used
The use of chemical munitions has a long and somewhat tortured history. This book begins that history with World War I which saw the heavy use of such weapons by nearly all countries. In World War II all of the major armies produced deadly gasses but little was actually used. It was indeed a period of restraint. In fact, the only incidents that I know of were the American ship 'John Harvey' being bombed while loaded with 2,000 Mustard Gas bombs and releasing the gas in Bari, Italy. The use of gas by the Nazi's during the Holocaust. And fairly heavy use by Japan in China including extensive testing by Japan's Unit 731 where some thousands of Chinese were reported killed.

The most recent use was the use in Iraq where an artillery projectile filled with a binary nerve gas was set off by the insurgents. It failed to mix properly so onlya very small amount was released.

This is truly a 'Study in Restraints' as all of the major powers sat on their supplies and didn't use them.

General Brown,the author wrote this book, and subsequently went on to become Chief of Armor and Cavalry, after his retirement he became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and worked at the International Institute of Strategic Studies. ... Read more

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Hall of Mirrors appeared in the December 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

It is a tough decision to make—whether to give up your life so you can live it over again! ... Read more

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enjoyable collection
Though the SF and fantasy stories in Space on My Hands are dated and most amount to little more than shaggy dog stories, they are still quite enjoyable.The two stand-outs are the first and last ones, Something Green and Come and Go Mad, which are more serious and a bit creepy, and show what potential he had when he really applied himself. ... Read more

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Mr. Henry Smith, agent for the Phalanx Life and Fire Insurance, will stop at nothing to protect the interests of his company… A classic mystery from the March 22, 1941 issue of "Detective Fiction Weekly."
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Peter Kidd should have suspected the shaggy dog of something, right away. He got into trouble the first time he saw the animal. It was the first hour of the first day of Peter Kidd's debut as a private investigator. Specifically, ten minutes after nine in the morning...

"Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He is perhaps best known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form--stories of 1 to 3 pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a somewhat postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well." -- Wikipedia ... Read more

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There were four men in the lifeboat that came down from the space-cruiser. Three of them were still in the uniform of the Galactic Guards.

The fourth sat in the prow of the small craft looking down at their goal, hunched and silent, bundled up in a greatcoat against the coolness of space—a greatcoat which he would never need again after this morning. The brim of his hat was pulled down far over his forehead, and he studied the nearing shore through dark-lensed glasses. Bandages, as though for a broken jaw, covered most of the lower part of his face.... ... Read more

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Biography?
I really think it takes a lot of guts to call a one-page bibliography with a paragraph on the author a "biography".Charging $10 for information that I could have easily gotten with a five-minute Google search is stealing.I'm very disappointed and think it was ridiculous to suggest this was anything at all worth the $10!! ... Read more