Visceral, disturbing and chilling in its realism, World War Z is perhaps the most famous work from the world's foremost expert on our undead counterparts. Paired with the equally gripping The Zombie Survival Guide, there is no better preparation for the inevitable uprising.

"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 firsthand 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.

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Listening Length	13 hours and 56 minutes
Author	Max Brooks
Narrator	Christopher Ragland, Rupert Farley, Nigel Pilkington, Jennifer Woodward, David Thorpe, Adam Sims, Robert Slade
Audible.in Release Date	13 November 2012
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07CNW3CVQ
Best Sellers Rank	#4,336 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals) #4 in Ghost Horror Fiction #11 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction #19 in Action Thriller Fiction

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Neel

Intresting, gripping, awesome

Reviewed in India on 1 April 2019

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An interesting gripping and amazing story... I've seen many zombie movies and TV shows.. But reading about them will be this much fun, that I did not expected.... If you've seen the movie then I'll highly suggest you to read this book... Because the movie lefts out a lot of things... Iam sure you'll enjoy this..

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Prashant

Amazing

Reviewed in India on 14 May 2017

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This book may seem childish but it's far from it. It's well thought, well written and a very different expository experience. The theme is beautiful handled and the realism is captured beautifully. It's a tale of human emotions and the will to not just survive, but dominate. It's a must read ofthis decade. Don't judge this by the Brad Pitt monstrosity.
And the Amazon delivery was very prompt too. A buy worth its weight.

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Dilli Trading House

Not a good read if you are a zombie, otherwise 5+

Reviewed in India on 24 June 2015

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I believe it is the most detailed book ever written in this particular niche. The war is detailed as best as it could have been and the interviews present a multi-faceted look at the war and account of varied approaches used by various countries.

A definite must-read for anyone who loves the Zombie niche.

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balphanso

Very very different way of telling a story

Reviewed in India on 2 December 2015

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This book was written in a very unique, at least from the books I have read. So many characters with their version of what happened, and leaving you the reader to piece thins together. Very innovative.. Glad I bought it.

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Koushik Muddu

Totally worth the money.

Reviewed in India on 14 June 2017

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The story captivates you from the first page itself and the narrative is lot different and a lot better than the movie. The quality of book is very good. Feels very light even though it's nearly 350 pages wide. The font can be a bit bigger but you get so engrossed in the story that it doesn't even matter. I would say totally go for it.

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Bills

Great book!

Reviewed in India on 14 March 2021

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Extremely well written and addictive. Just be aware of a few bad words. Else good .

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Rohan Bampal

Great work right here.

Reviewed in India on 22 August 2016

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The book was great! Like the way the zombie apocalypse was told and it's aftermath. Delivery was amazingly fast. Cheers!

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Venkataseshan

Enjoy reading this one

Reviewed in India on 6 October 2015

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It's really a great book, but you must be at least 16 to understand adult fiction apocalyptic novels. I recommend this book . all zombie lovers must read

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Edward

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 August 2019

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Not simply about zombies, this is a comment on our society’s lack of preparedness for a global disaster and our arrogance in assuming we can prevail with ease thanks to our technology.

It is about recognising our flaws in the form of reluctance, hesitation and denial as much as it is about recognising our capacity for survival in the harshest situation by way of grit and determination.

Our best survival tools are the aspects of ourselves we turn our noses up at as being archaic and uncomfortable.

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Dorset Reader

Everyone should read this book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2020

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My daughter told me to read this and l was reluctant but thought I'd give it a go. So glad I did. I've lost count of how many times I've reread it since.

It's compelling reading - so many voices, backgrounds, nationalities all retelling their experiences during the 10 year war. Zombies are bit players in the drama and conflicts and bravery.

Some of the stories will stay with you long after you've finished reading.

Max Brooks is a skillful, intelligent writer with a strong grasp on how people tick.

Highly recommended.

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Chris Worth

Really, really different. Brilliantly so.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2014

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It takes a while to get into, but when you get there you'll spend the rest of the book breathless and stunned. It's a totally new kind of novel - no key characters, no plot as such, no narrative three-act structure. The entire book is a series of fictitious "eyewitness accounts" from people affected in some way by the zombie apocalypse. And somehow, as you read each account - in its author's voice and with their hopes and dreams - you enter the storyworld, as engrossing as any thriller.

It works because so many of the tales ring true. When I mentioned to a friend her cooking skills would in great demand after the zombie war, she exploded with protests about her professional background and job. Right at that point in the text, an organiser was talking about how difficult it was to convince a man who used to "get hold of the rights to classic rock songs for commercials" that his skills weren't just inappropriate, they were obsolete - the post-apocalypse world needs carpenters and builders and manual trades, not marketers...

The way the eyewitness interviews develop over time, spanning countries and viewpoints, come together as a single, coherent picture of just what happened, how we solved it, how difficult it was. This book is truly something different. And that's not common in today's lit. A fantastic read.

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Nick Roberts

My third reread?My fifth?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2020

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5tars always.
WW Z is a fun, easy read and for me the standard against which to judge zombie novels ( and somewhat, zombie films though the epic Brad Pitt film is largely unrelated, having fast British-style 28 Days Later Zs).
The journalist interviewing survivors from all over the world narrative works well: each telling a different part or stage of the apocalypse from official denial and cover-up, outright lying by many countries' rulers (with noble exceptions) ,through to disastrous or non-existent countermeasures, defeat, slaughter, panicked flight, exile and eventual stalemate, and thereafter on to counter attack and human resurgence. Lots of different characters, situations and ideas to enjoy. And if the American Brooks gets his ideas of the British from a Hollywood view of us, well who can blame him?
It's a relaxing book to reread on holiday and with maybe one eye on the weather.
And as we start to come out of internal exile as Corvid19 sputters to some kind of constant low rolling tragedy I'm not sure the pre WW Z leaders come out as quite the dolts and crooks (and clearly Noughties Republicans in the States) that progressive Brooks made them out to be: imagined them way back when. At least they tried NOT to crash the world economy in a panic over their pandemic.
And yes, Brooks'' postwar world is mostly liberal,.globalist, and basically written as if Bill Clinton and Colin Powell had saved the world,.with a little help from moderate communists and Silicon Valley Democrats. Also, it's very much a pre-internet world and so it's Spielberg? or Tarantino? who keep civilian morale up rather than Amazon Prime and Netflix might try to do today.. Might.
Brookes tries to be fair to people (even Americans) not like himself., so it's
not much of a torment to read his preachy Greens or New Dealers gloating about their triumphs- patriots and professional soldiers and monarchists get a fair whack. Great fun for all the English-speaking folk apart from the then-extreme bookends of Left and Right.
But it's now the summer of 2020 and with western cities in flame, the police on their knees and the statues of soldiers who defeated the Confederacy and Hitler vandalised,destroyed or locked away for safety, who knows? -perhaps Brooks' exciting fantasy of postwar poverty, unnecessary food rationing, Tsarism peace and Social Democracy may soon seem like a dream of paradise.
Five stars for a fiver well spent way back when . Treat yourself to what may very well be numerous re-reads. And it's got to be nicer than living in Seattle right now..

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lola1805

My all time favourite book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 November 2020

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I love this book. I am not, in general, a reader of horror/zombie genre, but whenever anyone asks for a book reccomendation this is the one I give. The anthology style and focus on the nature of human society, means that you could lift zombies out of the book and replace it with any form of pandemic and how it would affect us as people and it would be just as effective. I have read this book 5 times and was the book I took into hospital with me when I went to give birth as I knew it would captivate and distract me. This is the second copy I have bought as I leant it to a friend and his dog ate it...

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