MixedThe New York Time Book Review... beautifully illustrated ... For the illustrations alone, Victory at Sea is worth the hardcover price. Marshall’s minimalist watercolor brushstrokes create an immersive, impressionistic sensation; you can almost whiff the salt breeze and hear the gulls. With a fine eye for detail and close attention to accuracy, the artist depicts ships of every fleet in scenes all over the world. They are superbly reproduced in this volume ... When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling. His prose never fails him; he is always graceful and lucid on the page ... Taken as a whole, however, Victory at Sea does not meet the high standard of scholarship sustained in Kennedy’s previous works. To be blunt, the book is poorly sourced and blemished by many errors. There are no fewer than 80 Wikipedia citations in the endnotes but insufficient reliance on the most important historical scholarship of the past 20 years ... Minor errors, so long as they are not too numerous, are embarrassing but not fatal — in this case, fleets are misnumbered, ships mislocated, admirals misidentified, chronologies mangled and island groups confused. Whether Victory at Sea can be said to include major errors involves a judgment call, but there are at least a few candidates ... with enough research assistants to organize a basketball team, one wonders whether better coaching was needed. At the very least, some part of the collective effort could have been diverted to identifying and correcting errors, for example, by searching Wikipedia ... Kennedy’s professional legacy rests upon 50 years of distinguished scholarship. He is a legitimately great historian. No one book, much less a single faultfinding review, could dull a reputation that glitters so brightly.