This is an excellent little book but how it needs to have an Index! Not only the story of military barracks, the buildings, and why they were required, this is a potted history of, in particular, the British Army, why it was required and what it did, and where it was located, when at home in the British Isles. .

A couple of mistakes to correct. The caption for the lower picture on page 7 should read "... Charles Cordiner's "Remarkable Ruins and Romantic Prospects of North Britain" ...". In the caption for the lower picture on page 33, he is wrong in his assertion in the last sentence, for it was not naval conservatism but naval pragmatism that required semaphore to continue after the introduction of the electric telegraph - if the electric telegraph failed for any reason, not least from action damage, then an alternative method of signalling between ships was required. Indeed, semaphore may be used even in the 21st Century when there is concern about an enemy listening in. ( )