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Prior to World War I Maxim wrote a book "Defenseless America", in which he pointed out the inferiority of American weapons to those of European countries. He also wrote a book "The Science of Poetry" about the nature and writing of poetry.

During his experimental career, he lost his left hand in a Mercury Fulminate explosion.