 "Citizen Soldiers" became a best seller, appearing on the "New York Times" best sellers lists for both hardcover and paperback editions in the same week.During the same week, in September 1998, "D-Day" and "Undaunted Courage", Ambrose's 1996 book on Meriwether Lewis and the Corps of Discovery, appeared on the best seller list, also.He also wrote "The Victors" (1998), a distillation of material from other books detailing Eisenhower's wartime experiences and connections to the common soldier, and "The Wild Blue", that looks at World War II aviation largely through the experiences of George McGovern, who commanded a B-24 crew that flew numerous missions over Germany.