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World War Z

An Oral History of the Zombie War

By Max Brooks

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| Audio CD | 9780739340134

Book Description

“The end was near.” –Voices from the Zombie War

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United StaContinue

“The end was near.” –Voices from the Zombie War

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.

Most of all, the audiobook captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the listener, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, “By excluding the human factor, aren’t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as ‘the living dead’?”

Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.

7 Reviews

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    One critic used the word "literate" to describe this novel, and I think it is a fair compliment. Brooks's familiarity with our world and the lack of many common scare tactics (except for in the opening) made this book strangely plausible once you accepted its premise. My disbelief was suspended co ... (continue)

    One critic used the word "literate" to describe this novel, and I think it is a fair compliment. Brooks's familiarity with our world and the lack of many common scare tactics (except for in the opening) made this book strangely plausible once you accepted its premise. My disbelief was suspended completely and since I'm a military man, that's something for a book about politics and military response to disaster.

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    ― WingmanX said on Feb 20, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • One of the most unique and interesting things I've read in a long time. I highly recommend it! :)

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    ― Deanna Kyre said on May 21, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • World War Z

    This book, set in our near future, is very unique and very memorable. Max Brooks' ruminations on the population's response (on both an individual level and a national level) to a presumed catastrophe of this magnitude are scarily realistic and believable. The story is told in the format of interv ... (continue)

    This book, set in our near future, is very unique and very memorable. Max Brooks' ruminations on the population's response (on both an individual level and a national level) to a presumed catastrophe of this magnitude are scarily realistic and believable. The story is told in the format of interviews with survivors of a world-wide zombie attack which gives the book the feel of a mocumentary and gives a whole new meaning to the term Generation Z.

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    ― Readingrat said on Aug 8, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • First class!

    I'm not much of a horror reader, but this book makes me want to explore the genre more.

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    ― Silent said on Jun 24, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • I can't say enough about how much I enjoyed this one. It kept me up far too late and I pretty much never put it down once I started it. I am forcing everyone I know to read it.

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    ― dalai lala said on Dec 30, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • The full cast of the audiobook made this a great "read". It really added that personal element to each account that I heard was somewhat lacking in the paper version.

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    ― Kevin Kuphal said on Jun 7, 2007 | Add your feedback

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