Car Wars: Fifty Years of Backstabbing, Infighting, and Industrial Espionage .... (Paperback) by Jonathan Mantle

Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 272. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Ferdinand Porsche, widely revered as the inventor of the VW Beetle, stole the plans for the people's car from a Czech designer with Hitler's help. General Motors manufactured jet engines for Hitler's army, then got $33 million in tax exemptions from the U.S. government for damages sustained by Allied bombing of its German factories. Packed with these and other tales of greed and treachery, Car Wars is a must-read lesson in industrial strategy and a fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of the world's best-known automobiles.