Bauer Books & H. G. Wells 
The World Set Free [EPUB ebook] 

The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen.
A frequent theme of Wells’s work, as in his 1901 nonfiction book 
Anticipations,  was the history of humans‘ mastery of power and energy through technological advance, seen as a determinant of human progress. The novel begins: ‚The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. . . . Always down a lengthening record, save for a set-back ever and again, he is doing more