If anybody was unclear on the matter, George Patton was a pyscho. An excellent soldier, but a pyscho all the same. War as I Knew It is his memoir of WW2, and you get a solid sense of the man, his energy, and his confidence. What this book doesn't supply is any kind of perspective or insight on strategy. True, Patton had a genius for the attack and a relentless drive that he somehow imparted to his corps and division commanders, and eventually to the grunts, but he also had one of the best supplied and most technologically advanced armies in existence (fuel shortages in September-November of 1944 aside.)

War as Patton knew it was a grand game: with parades, visits from dignitaries, cocktails at lunch, and only occasional shelling by the Germans. I don't think anybody else experienced war that way.