THE NIMZO-INDIAN RUBINSTEIN by Dunnington brings back memories for me. I remember when I first took up the Nimzo-Indian in the 1970s and the pioneering work on this opening by IM Craig Pritchett. That book, maybe the first in English on the Nimzo, dealt with the Rubinstein system 4.e3 and Black's replies 4...b6, 4...c5 (Huebner) and 4...Nc6 with ...d5 (Ragozin) and made me a Nimzo player for life. 

Dunnington's new book, like Pritchett's, doesn't try to cover everything in the 4.e3 Nimzo, which was recently done by Carsten Hansen (click to see reviews of Hansen's THE NIMZO INDIAN: 4.e3 by Donaldson, Silman, Bauer, and Watson) for Gambit and earlier by Leon Pliester for ICE. Both of those books were huge and couldn't offer a lot of explanatory prose. This new book in the Everyman series is able to address itself to a larger audience by restricting the number of variations it covers. Like Pritchett's book, 4...b6 and the Huebner system get extensive treatment. Most players could play either variation with the material provided here. There is also extensive coverage of 4.e3 followed by 5.Ne2 against 4...0-0 as well as 4...c5, enabling someone to use this book to combat the Nimzo with Rubinstein's original treatment.

Dunnington also covers the more modern Bd3 and Nge2 setups. He has very modest coverage of the main lines after e3, Bd3 and Nf3, where Black plays ...0-0, ...c5 and ...d5, restricting himself to the most recent important games, almost certainly because he hit his limit of 160 pages right on the dot. 

IM Dunnington has done an excellent job in explaining many of the important ins and outs of the Rubinstein Nimzo-Indian. I think most players would benefit more from this type of book than a more encyclopedic work. My one caveat is that the variation 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2 c5 also reached by 4...c5 5.Ne2 b6 is not to be found at all in this book, which is a little surprising since it can arise from either of the two main variations considered in this book and is also a very dangerous system to meet for White if you don't know anything about it.

Recommended.