PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewOften frustrating in its thoroughness...But if the swirl never clarifies into a nice, clear, good-guys-versus-bad-guys narrative the way the war itself did, count that as a mark of this book’s accuracy ... Strausbaugh gives us history as crazy quilt rather than as the foregone conclusion it sometimes seems ... getting through Victory City will require either a photographic memory or dexterous use of the index ... Yet if not all of the names in this book will stick, the portrait of an amazingly dynamic, chaotic, trepidation-filled time will.
