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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I found this novel great because it portrays the zombie apocalypse in a way we can all relate to. No country in the world is prepared for this apocalypse, but Israel is the first to respond with quarantine and closed borders. The underwater swarms of zombies were unexpected, but I liked that added touch on the story, it made the story much more interesting. In most other zombie lore, the US army is shown as prepared but outnumbered. I enjoyed how Mr. Brooks changed that by making the army outnumbered and unprepared, with an added touch of mental instability. SPOILERS OVER
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The personal accounts range from smugglers, to blind Japanese men living in the mountains, to Russian soldiers forced to kill their own as disciplinary action. While some stories have more action or might pique your interest more, all are worth reading, they all tie the story together. Half of the stories are military/government campaigns, and the other half are civilian survivors who made it by sheer luck.
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