Readers who bought based on the title will be famished.
What was promised was the full course. What was delivered were a variety of appetizers and half the main course. A movable feast it is not, with an apology to Hemingway.
One-third of the book deals with events pre- Barbarossa (p 1 to 130). On Barbarossa, the book’s focus is on Army Group Centre, out of 3 Army groups. The epic sieges of Leningrad (Army Group North) and Stalingrad (Army Group South) are insufficiently covered!
That said, readers who are new to WW2 in general and the Russian War, in particular, will benefit from this book. Dimbleby writes well. Quotations are judiciously chosen and apt. Being a 2021 book it is also the latest book on this area.
Ultimately, it’s a missed opportunity. Clearly, the book would have benefited from good editors and peer reviews. I wonder whether reviewers who proclaimed this is the best single-volume book on the Barbarossa campaign finished reading this book.