But, Brooks reassures us, even today, human fighters are hunting down the leftovers, and we're winning. Zombies are among us-turn on your television if you don't believe it. 'An 'oral history' of the global war the evil brain-chewers came within a hair of winning. This is action-packed social-political satire with a global view.' - Dallas Morning News 'Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles's War of the Worlds radio broadcast. 'Will grab you as tightly as a dead man's fist. 'Possesses more creativity and zip than entire crates of other new fiction titles. 'Will spook you for real.' - The New York Times Book Review THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 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. 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. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, 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. The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic. About the Book Brooks, author of the straight-faced parody 'The Zombie Survival Guide,' tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts by various characters around the world.īook Synopsis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 'Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.'- Entertainment Weekly

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