This book is essentially a photograph album. About five pages of text, all told, introduce the book and its eleven chapters, covering the 300-year history of the dockyard and garrison, from the 1670s to 1960. Almost all the 230 illustrations are postcard-size photographs many, unfortunately, not of the highest quality but the book provides a rare glimpse into an important dockyard, an important part of the Royal Navy's story and its architectural history - a photographic record of a dockyard of which very little evidence remains. It's probably the best book on Sheerness that one can buy. ( )