A collection of interviews from people who were key during the zombie war. From those who first encountered reanimated victims to those who fought against them in the reclamation wars.
Awfully fun, though very ghoulish in places.
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A collection of interviews from people who were key during the zombie war. From those who first encountered reanimated victims to those who fought against them in the reclamation wars.
Awfully fun, though very ghoulish in places.
Mass Market Paperback
“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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