M. : Yauza:Exmo, 2011. - 608 s. Since its birth, the domestic automotive industry has not been isolated from the rest of the world - even in the most difficult periods of history. in the midst of the Cold War and open confrontation with the West foreign cars were a significant part of the fleet of the USSR, It was also used in the Soviet Army............... and in the national economy .. It is primarily about hundreds of thousands of cars received during the Second World War on Lend-Lease, as well as trophy equipment captured from the Wehrmacht and its allies. Although it was not customary to mention this in the USSR, captured and Lend-Lease cars played an important role in the development of the Soviet automotive industry, whose rapid progress in the post-war period was made possible by a thorough study of world experience. Working on this topic for many years, literally piece by piece, collecting and processing a huge amount of information, the author recreates for the first time the true history of this car invasion of the USSR, which left a noticeable mark on the fate of the domestic automotive industry.