World War Z

An Oral History of the Zombie War

Hardcover, 602 pages

English language

Published March 7, 2007 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7862-9348-3
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 zombie apocalyptic horror novel written by American author Max Brooks. The novel is broken into eight chapters: Warnings, Blame, The Great Panic, Turning the Tide, "Home Front USA", "Around the World, and Above", "Total War", and Good-Byes, and features a collection of individual accounts narrated by an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission, following the devastating global conflict against a zombie plague. Other passages record a decade-long desperate struggle, as experienced by people of various nationalities. The personal accounts take place all over the world, including Antarctica and even outer space. The "interviews" detail the experiences of the survivors of the crisis, as well as social, political, religious, economic, and environmental changes that have occurred as a result. World War Z is a follow-up to Brooks' fictitious survival manual The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), but its …

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5 stars for the book itself. 3 stars for the audiobook version. All of the voice actors (who are pretty much all big names) phoned it in and sounded as if they were just reading from a script. Yes, they were reading from a script, but actors are supposed to make the roles come to life. The lame acting in the audiobook version was extremely distracting, but the book itself was excellent.

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Subjects

  • American Horror Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Men's Adventure
  • Horror
  • Fantasy - General
  • War & Military
  • Horror - General
  • Large type books
  • Zombies