Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79652 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Simon Morden, ed. Vector (on The Zombie Survival Guide)
I doubt that I will read a more disturbing book all year ... Brilliantly written, morbidly funny, completely convincing

Synopsis
It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. The reports were fragmentary and confused. A world still reeling from bird flu and limited nuclear exchanges had had enough of apocalypse. Most people just wanted to rebuild their lives. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse. Faced with a future of mindless, man-eating horror, humanity was forced to accept the logic of world government and face events that tested our sanity and our sense of reality. Maybe, Brooks argues, the zombies brought us back to life. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and key players in the ten-year fight-back against the horde, "World War Z" brings the very finest traditions of American journalism to bear on what is surely the most incredible story in the history of civilisation.

About the Author
Max Brooks is the author of 2003’s prescient Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead. He has since received hundreds of awards and honorary degrees from around the world. Last year he received the joint Papal and U.N. citation, Pro Humanitate.

Customer Reviews

The No. 1 Zombie Book
To me this is the book to have if you have no other zombie book - I like it more than any other book and have actually read it more than twice - which is a first for me! There is so much detail and knoweldge in this book, the story is so tied in to reality that you could just believed that this has all really happened. The ideas are so scarey and so real that its the sort of book you could discuss indefinately.

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World War Z ......
Bought on whim.... loved it.. not a typical zombie story. very clever. If this was gonna happen this is how it would happen

World War Z
'World War Z', like Brooks 'Zombie Survival Guide', draws you in until your actually start to live the story. It is written in an interview format, where various people recount their experiences during the zombie war, but half way through you really start to live the story and imagine it could be real. The level of detail Brooks adds to this story is staggering and really adds to the overall reality in the book. It is extremely easy to read and looks at all aspects of life around a zombie outbreak, army response and mutiny, new society development, government plans to escape and then fight back, living on water, eradicating the zombies in water, how civilians fought back, dealing with being stranded in a zombie infested area etc etc the list goes on and is exhaustive. If you like zombie books and movies and if you enjoyed 'The Zombie Survival Guide' (which I kind of recommend you read first) then this is the very book for you. Highly recommended.