Zombie War | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Good zombie story | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks

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	• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks Three Rivers Press, 2007 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 623 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Zombie Role Playing

I was asked to order these books for Christmas presents, by a zombie role playing fanatic. :)

Zombie War

I found this to be a refreshing and enjoyable change of pace. Forget that the book is about the "zombie" war. The method of its telling reads like a documentary of any world wide threat. I like the style with each chapter being interviews from the wars participants. From the disastrous and heart wrenching to the uplifting, this story has it all.

Good zombie story

A good zombie book. Some of the short stories left me wanting for more. Really made me think how I should prepare for the pending zombie war or some natural disaster.

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Entertaining, unrealistic, not enough sex talk

First of all, this book has some huge problems. The issues of sex with zombies was never broached! I read all 352 pages eagerly anticipating some sort of copulation scene. I was somewhat gratified by a couple mentions of zombie nudity, but nothing even came remotely close to full on, hard core zombie/human coitus.

On a positive note, I did not have any trouble turning the pages like I do with some larger sized books. I liked looking at the cover because it has a huge "Z" on it and that is my favorite letter in the English language.

I arrived to work early one day and was reading in my car. I was so enthralled that I forgot to ash my cigarette and a huge chunk fell into the book. So, now the book smells awful and my cat likes to sleep next to it.

I would purchase this book if I liked zombies and reading short stories about people interacting with them.

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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 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.

Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war

?I found ?Patient Zero? behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although he?d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was ?cursed.? I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boy?s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.? ?Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China

??Shock and Awe?? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy can?t be shocked and awed? Not just won?t, but biologically can?t! That?s what happened that day outside New York City, that?s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldn?t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! They?re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!? ?Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers

?Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.? ?General Travis D?Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

From the Hardcover edition.

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