World War Z: An Oral History of The Zombie War - Max Brooks

World War Z: An Oral
History of the Zombie

War
By
Max Brooks
Three Rivers Press
“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
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World War Z: An Oral

History of the Zombie

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity.

Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the

Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this

Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war

“I found ‘Patient Zero’ behind the locked door of an abandoned

Three Rivers Press

Read or download the full book on

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