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An Oral History of the Zombie War
Three Rivers Press
October 2007
On Sale: October 16, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0307346617
EAN: 9780307346612
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“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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