This book highlights the African Zulu tribe’s fighting weapons and techniques.  The book begins by stating that in the late 1700’s, Shaka Zulu rose to power.  Not so.  Shaka was born in 1787 and was the son of the Zulu chief.  However, when Shaka was six years old, his father sent both him and his mother back to her tribe in shame.  Shaka hated his father.  It was in 1815 when the chief died that Shaka went back to the Zulus, killed most of his relatives, and began building the Zulu empire, using great military organizational skill.  He was ruthless and reigned with terror.  His mother died in 1827 and he was devastated, became depressed, and made several tactical errors.  A year later,in 1828, he was assassinated by two half-brothers.  This book doesn’t speak to any of these facts, but leads the reader to believe that Shaka ruled for many years, until defeated by the British.  It’s an interesting subject but so much has been left out that the facts that are there are skewed.  There would be so much more to say about the warriors than the little that was mentioned here.  Not worth the expense.