Very nice book for Judo learning. History is very good. Theory is very European and well explained. Practice is also European. This is an excellent instruction manual for beginners, advanced students, and instructors. Very easy to read.

I rated this book with 4 stars for two reasons:

A. It is reasonably well written book, and for its quality of writing it deserves no less than 4 stars

B. It does not deserve 5 stars because it does not excel at anything. It touches many subjects, but it does not give you much depth on any of these.

If you already have some other Judo books such as Kodokan Judo, Best Judo, A-Z of Judo, and if you've read some sports nutrition and conditioning guides than this book will not give you much more over it.

On the other hand, if you are a book collector, specially a Judo book collector you may want to have this book since it is partially written by Vladimir Putin, even though it is not clear which sections are written by Vladimir Putin.
Two other "co-authors" are distinguished Russian Judo coaches.