I ordered this book with high expectations. Alas, it was a waste of money. The author, I'm sure, knows a lot about castles. However, he is not at all articulate in communicating his knowledge and he has as much logical organisation as a dozen monkeys sitting at typewriters and gibbering away at random. At times, technical terms are introduced without definition, and without appearing in the very limited glossary at the back of the book. Not even the images can make an investment in this book worthwhile -- if arranged and annotated more helpfully, they could have been instructive but as matters stand they are about as much help, and have about as much aesthetic appeal, as holiday snaps found in an abandoned album.