The article characterizes a new book by the famous Soviet and Russian politician and public figure N.I. Ryzhkov, who, based on a deep study of archival material previously inaccessible to the general scientific community, wrote a study devoted to one of the most important political, economic and military-strategic issues of Russian and international history, the issue of lend-lease and its role in the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. Not only the characteristics of the structure of the book are given, but an analysis of all its sections is made, the social significance of this publication is indicated.