I have the first or second edition of "Assembly Language Step By Step", and it's the best intro I know of. It must be difficult to write a good assembly book.

I have the first or second edition of "Assembly Language Step By Step", and it's the best intro I know of. It must be difficult to write a good assembly book. On one hand there's a lot of basics to cover, like memory addressing, segmentation registers, etc. But on the other hand, the main use case for it today is hand optimized functions for when the compiler can't optimize enough, which is inherently an advanced topic.