Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Brings history to life

On the positive side, Citizen Soldiers masterfully interweaves the large-scale strategy of the European campaign with the day-to-day experiences of individual GIs. As such, it offers non-veterans an insight into the horrendous slugfest of 1944-45. I have to agree with previous reviewers, however, that Ambrose is more interested in cannonizing GIs than writing history. Particuarly suspicious is his central thesis - that there was something unique about American "citizen soldiers" that led inexorably to the defeat of Nazi Germany. I imagine that the British, free French, Russians, and Poles who fought bitterly throughout the war might have a different viewpoint.