A book that every serious chess player should read

@MrPushwood @Sarg0n did capa say something about an isolated h pawn is losing in rook endgames or something in that direction? Because i think i faintly remember something like that.

Yeah, if it's a 2 vs 1 ending, that's the one I'm talking about. It's in one of those books of Mr Whitecap's. :)

#5
No, I have not read Lasker's "Manual of Chess", but I have read his "Common Sense in Chess" which is also good and free. Be careful however: there is a later edition by Reinfeld, which is bad.

#12
I would take any book by a World Champion above all those by lesser Rowson, Farnsworth, Silman, Heisman, Hendriks...

#17
No, this book has no exercises, but it has some fine games, including nearly all games Capablanca lost and he rarely lost any.
You can turn any game into a set of exercises. Take the winning side and cover the text. Play the move by the losing side and then think about your reply. Then uncover the move played and compare to your. Proceed through the game. This is much more realistic than tactics puzzles, as tactics puzzles tell you there is some tactic, while playing through a real game you do not know if there is any tactic or not.

@QuantumGravity-DR you can find it at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33870

Here is a study that contains the book's content, albeit with truncated text.

No i mean when you have black, white takes on f6 and gives you doubled f pawns and isolated h pawn. Did he say the position was unholdable in a rook endgame, or did i confuse that with something else?