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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War |  | Author: Max Brooks
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  659 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0307346617
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780307346612
ASIN: 0307346617
Publication Date: October 16, 2007
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Product 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 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 book 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 reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, By excluding the human factor, arent we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isnt the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as the living dead?
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 Best of the bunch March 7, 2010
James Ware
In the growing sub-genre of zombie fiction, Brooks work stands out. It is the best of the lot. It is gritty and real and smacks with the authenticity of the words of people who have been to hell and back.
If you read only one "zombie book", you could do much worse than pick this one.
Undead in the Head book review March 6, 2010
Lyle Perez (Anza, CA)
While I review this book I want to make it clear that I am only giving very brief comments on the book so I don't give out many spoilers. I'm just going to give out a very fast, easy review.
Hands down this is one of the best zombie novels out there. It has everything from action to emotion and it's intelligent.
The title of the book pretty much sums up the book, it is an oral history of the zombie war. The main plot is about a United Nations Postwar Commission agent (Max Brooks) who is writing a report about the zombie war. The UN was only interested in facts and figures, and so it left out a lot of the individual feelings from his report. The novel is basically his whole report, written as a form of protest to not have these people's stories be silenced.
World War Z or WWZ is written in a way that makes you (the reader) believe this was an accrual war that took place a decade ago. Brooks travels around the world to find these people so they can give their side of the story. We go from country to country reading what they had to do to survive. One thing I enjoyed about the book was the style; Brooks chimes in just at the right time to ask just the right questions as the interview goes on.
Unlike most books WWZ does not start with the infected already taking over the world and we follow a group of survivors along their journey. Instead the first person interviewed was one of the doctors that first came into contact with an infected child. Although the real origin of the virus remains unknown, the first encounter was in China.
I don't want to give out to much detail as the book its self will cover everything better than I can. Let's move a long to some of the action the book has to offer. The battle of Yonkers is what stands out the most. The person being interviewed is Todd Wainio he tells just how unprepared the military was with their counter attack. What was to be a moral booster for the American public turned ugly real quick. The book continues and we hear about other countries counter attack attempts that end in pure horror as military personal are given orders to abandon protected citizens. In order to see what happens next and how the war is finally won by the human race you'll have to read to book.
There is an abridged audio book of WWZ. It is a well done audio book as each interview is met by a different voice. Many voices in the audio book are familiar as we have Luke Skywalk (Mark Hamill) Jesus from the Big Lebowski (John Turturro) Norman from All in the Family (Rob Reiner) and so many other well known actors, directors. Etc. Only problem with the audio book is that it is an abridged version so there are a lot of good interviews missing. If you take anything out of my review please let it be this, do not listen to the audio book before reading the book. I made that mistake. I missed a lot of good stuff left out of the audio book. I will put a link to the audio book
Over all WWZ is a great novel and I recommend it to anyone interested in zombies. I'll give WWZ a rating of 5 Undead Heads out of 5.
This is a wonderful book in all aspects March 6, 2010
S. Robles (California)
This is a book about people dealing with Zombies. How zombies affected the world. The craft involved in making this book is memerizing. A fantastic read.
 Have not read it myself yet... February 25, 2010
Michele Zerbe (Indiana)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a gift, and the person I bought it for reads it frequently. Definitely a must for zombie-fanatics.
I am just a kid who got a kindle February 18, 2010
Unlike most books that i have read World War Z is written in complete interviews that tells storys of hard ship and the things we regret when we lose what we though we never had. This book is filled with intersting people who you would of thought would never have survived a zombie war theres generals doctors and even a disabled person who tells his story i recomend buying the zombie survival guide before reading this so then you know what may go on in the book it is a great book and seriously recommend it for anyone who likes zombies
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