Rating: 
Summary: Interresting
Review: This book was difficult for me to follow. It seemed to be written more like a diary or personal notes and maybe he didn't have time to fill in the blanks. To tell you how confused I was, one moment I thought I was in North Africa and the next he's talking about Italy. I said, "when did I get to Italy?" On the other hand, you do get a feel for who Patton was and he does give some good advice for tactics and he had some very interresting views of how digging fox holes dropped [spirits]. I didn't notice any mention of him slapping the soldier that he took so much heat over. I'm not going to give up on his writing and will some day try to read another book by him. So with that in mind I would recommend trying something else. Either another book of his or as I have done but not read yet, a book by Omar Bradley, "A Soldiers Story."
Rating: 
Summary: Unpolished but informative
Review: Written like a private diary not intended for publication, Patton rambles through every week, month and engagement in which he superintended with personal anecdotes, historical quips, troop and corps movements, successes and failures, complaints about the high command, commendations for his staff, and nostalgic perspectives about Europe from his days in WWI. As a whole, this work is disjointed and picaresque. There are a great number of Pattonisms here though which pique the reader for the more notorious and famous episodes in the general's bright career. Since this is his only work, it belongs on the shelves of WWII enthusiasts, but as a classical reference on the war, it suffers greatly.
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