cover image Catapult: Harry and I Build a Seige Weapon

Catapult: Harry and I Build a Seige Weapon

Jim Paul. Avon Books, $9 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71840-5

On a whim the author and a friend built a catapult modeled on an ancient prototype, an experience that gave rise to this meditation on the blood-soaked past, present and future of the human race. (Oct.)