Download or read book Forging the Thunderbolt written by Mildred Hanson Gillie and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the military history of the rise of America's armoured forces from their humble beginnings in borrowed tanks on the battlefields of France in World War I to a thundering crescendo of tactical prowess and lethal power as they spearheaded the liberation of Western Europe in World War II.