" I just completed the section on weapon selection and was rather disappointed. This books chooses to focus purely on the combat aspects leaving other details of zombie survival (transportation, fortification, etc) to other texts. As such, it would be expected that the weapon section would be rather expansive. The author states upfront that he is going to avoid range weapons such as firearms and bows, which is fine, but he still does a mediocre job covering weapons. He breaks the weapons down into several classes and for each class, evaluates several weapons. However, his weapon selections are incomplete and random. While he repeatedly mentions katana blades, there is no evaluation of them in the edged weapon section. There is only one sword, a random German design, included whereas others such as samurai, long, or shorts swords are neglected. Additionally, there is no mention of axes but tomahawks are included. For a book purely about zombie combat, I expected there to be more detail and analysis of weapons compared to a more general book like the zombie survival guide. However, there is better analysis and details of weapons in the survival guide compared to the combat manual.
Overall the book was decent but it didn't add much not already covered in books like the zombie survival guide other than some specific hand to hand techniques for fighting zombies. "
— James, 1/18/2014