SOURCE: "George Patton's Plain-Spoken Diary," in The New York Times Book Review, Vol. 52, No. 27, November 9, 1947, pp. 3.

In the following essay, a review of War As I Knew It, Wolfert finds fault with Patton's expressed views toward himself, others, and the war.

In the introduction to this book—a book written by General Pattom from the diary he personally kept until four days before his fatal' automobile accident—Douglas Southall Freeman writes, "It is to be hoped that General Patton will be among the first to attract a competent biographer and that others will leave him alone. He was a man to win, to intrigue and sometimes to enrage his fellow-commanders." He was also a man to dismay those around him who were conscious of American ideals; and Patton, himself, who in all fairness was not one to hide anything about himself, is characteristically blunt and peppery about disclosing...