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Author Brooks, Max.

Title World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war / Max Brooks.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Crown, [2006]
©2006
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1215327~S1
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Description 342 pages ; 25 cm
Summary 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, 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.
Subject War -- Humor.
ISBN 0307346609
Standard No. 9780307346605
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August 15 2013
SRP 2013 REVIEW: I thought this book was a little hard to read at first because it was broken up. As I continued to read I enjoyed it more, reading about the struggles and ways that people fought the zombies. It showed how strong some people were and how they fought to stay alive.
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August 14 2013
SRP 2013 REVIEW: Somehow, this zombie book is completely plausible. No answers as to how or why the plague started, just interviews with survivors telling their stories. I'm not sure how this was adapted into the current movie...I've only seen the trailers, but in the book the zombies stagger and moan like they are 'supposed' to do--they don't swarm quickly like the Orcs in LOTR. I'm not sure I want to see the movie, but I'm glad I read this book. Brooks pulled off the interview style brilliantly, and built characters that you cared about even if they only occurred on two or three pages. I loved the part about the retired military dogs. Of course miniature dachshunds would be perfect zombie fighters!
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August 12 2013
SRP 2013 REVIEW: I liked the apocalypic story and how the people ended up living through this world. There is so much underneath the chaos of a story like this!
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August 24 2012
SRP 2012 REVIEW: It was an awesome book. I really loved how the story was told.
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August 17 2012
SRP 2012 REVIEW: i feel like this a creepy book
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October 11 2011
SRP 2011 REVIEW: I would not normally select a "zombie" book, but a friend suggested it. The book is a series of interviews with the survivors of the zombie war. I enjoyed how the story was told from so many different points of views and parts of the world. I would recommend this book.
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