World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. It is a follow-up to his 2003 book The Zombie Survival Guide. Rather than a grand overview or narrative, World War Z is a collection of individual accounts in the form of first-person anecdote. Brooks plays the role of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission who published the report a decade after the Zombie War. The United Nations left out much of his work from the official report, choosing to focus on facts and figures from the war rather than the individual stories that form the bulk of Brooks' novel. The interviews chart a decade-long war against zombies from the view point of many different people of various nationalities. The personal accounts also describe the changing religious, geo-political, and environmental aftermath of the Zombie War.
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Has anyone read this book? I am currently reading it. The book, as stated above, is one large story of an outbreak that turns people to zombies, told through the views of many people, including a badass doctor who carries a desert eagle because it looks cool, which he uses to blow a zombie's head off. Without spoiling much, the infection starts in China, spreads to other countries through black market trading of unknowingly infected organs, and spreads from there. This book has many gruesome scenes, in one of which a twelve year old infected boy breaks his arm in half until the bone slices through the skin, because he is restrained and tries to bite people. Though I have not finished the book, I would still recommended this book to anyone who likes books about zombies, the apocalypse and horror.
A scene from the book, the fictional Battle of Yonkers. Sent this image to my friend, and now he wants to finish the book.
