World War Z

An Oral History of the Zombie War

Hardcover, 352 pages

English language

Published Sept. 12, 2006 by Crown.

ISBN:
978-0-307-34660-5
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“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 …

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war vs plague

3 stars

Enjoyable zombie shift, a retrospective on plague through interviews it mostly trades the horror hordes for human stories of disbelief and displacement. War and military get a little too much focus for me, however. The audiobook is a good fit for the format, with a good cast.

Subjects

  • American Satire And Humor
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Men's Adventure
  • War & Military
  • Fiction / General
  • Humorous
  • Horror fiction
  • War stories
  • Zombies