Stephen Ambrose's latest bestseller, The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, returns to familiar territory—chronicling the experiences of WWII veterans. This time, instead of basing his book on firsthand accounts from army veterans, he focuses on former Senator George McGovern and his crew, and their 35 missions over Germany, Austria and Poland. Ambrose is on an eight-city tour; one of the highlights was a conversation between Ambrose and McGovern in Mitchell, S.D., at Dakota Wesleyan University, which McGovern attended, and where he learned to fly his first plane. Simon & Schuster has already gone back to press for a second printing, making for 450,000 copies.
With reporting by Dick Donahue
