Medieval Siege Weapons (2), Vol. 2 Book

Greek fire, giant crossbows, and mangonels'interesting stuff. As with the first volume (on Western Europe), this book is standard Osprey: lots of information and illustrations in a concise rather than narrative account. I found this one a little less organized than the one on Western Europe'I think because the book was organized by weapon type, so with each type of weapon, the reader it yanked around from Byzantium to India to Russia to Egypt. On the other hand, organizing it by geographic region might have had roughly the same effect, and probably would have necessitated repeating information on the various weapons. I guess the broad, scattered approach is a result of the broad, scattered topic. I'd recommend the book to readers with an interest in the subject, and give it 3.5 stars, rounding up for Goodreads.