Already from my replies #16 and #19 should be clear that have mixed feelings about this book.
Certainly it’s Lakdawala‘s usual entertaining and encouraging style explaining openings. He obviously has experience in the Winawer with b6/Qd7, as he gives many of his own games (rapid & tournament). Good explanations of what black should play for, especially if white chooses noncritical lines. But the coverage of critical lines cannot satisfy: imo too thin and not deep enough!?
Even not for ~1800 level!? In addition to my concerns in reply #16 I noticed another hole?!
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Bc3 Lb4 4.e5 Qd7 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 b6 7.Qg4 f5 8.Qg3 Ba6 9.Bxa6 Nxa6 10.Ne2 Lakdawala reaches this also after 4...b6 and ...Qd7 later. He doesn’t recommend a special move order and also analyzes ...Bb4-f8 after both 4...Qd7 and 4...b6, but according to the Index of variations the position after 10.Ne2 is his main line within his repertoire. Though it is covered in only 1 of 18 main games on this system!? Well, now (page 107) he calls 10...Kf7 and 10...Nb8 11.Nf4 Kf7 „virtually interchangeable“.
In CBM 152 (2013) GM Kritz gives a white repertoire against this line and has 10...Nb8? 11.c4! dxc4 12.d5!! with a strong white attack, based on Grishuk-Dizdar Mainz 2006 (1:0, 27). A later game was won by black, then another by white, finally most black players seem to have shifted away from 10...Nb8?! My Engines strongly prefers White ( +1,2 +/-), maybe they err in these positions. I don’t know [anyone here?] if Grishuk‘s 11.c4 can be neutralized, but for sure black should know about the existence of this move ...
Nevertheless Lakdawala‘s book may be useful for someone intending to play this Petrosian Winawer. It’s just that he shouldn’t rely solely on this source but use it only as introduction!?
Anyway, from me not more than 2-3 stars out of 5.

tracke