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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13 hours and 56 minutes
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Max Brooks
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13 November 2012
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English
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B00NSPPHSY
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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
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	13 November 2012
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00NSPPHSY
Best Sellers Rank	536 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 2 in Ghost Horror Fiction 3 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 4 in Ghost Thrillers

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HuikalaSam

Crazy parallels with the Covid pandemic!

Reviewed in Australia on 8 November 2021

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I started reading this shortly after the Covid pandemic began and the parallels between real life and fiction were pretty freaky!!! Totally compelling and gripping story, with really authentic narrator voices and great structure. Fans of the movie will enjoy discovering how the movie is connected to the book - for example, it is fascinating that the aeroplane sequence was only a passing mention in the book. Reading the book enhances the movie and vice versa. Will definitely read again and also seek out more by this author.

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Raquel

So clever you'll think it actually happened...

Reviewed in Australia on 8 December 2015

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This was a compelling read - each interview had its own voice and style. I can't imagine the amount of research that went into making every single interview in this book sound credible, detailed and real. My only real disappointment was that there was no exploration of what caused the plague in the first place - I was so drawn into the story that I really wanted to know how it happened!

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Adam Mair

Better than your average zombie read

Reviewed in Australia on 7 February 2014

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I'm a big fan of the zombie genre and with the popularity of the film when I saw this for the bargain price of $3.25 I snapped it up. I'm very glad I did. The writing style is excellent and well edited - immediately setting it several rungs above many of the cheap/free kindle zombie stories out there. I don't think I'm giving anything away when I saw that it describes the out-break of a zombie plague, the near annihilation of the human race, the gradual fight back and then the rebuilding. It is written as a series of short interviews with different survivors around the world, collected after the event, and presented as an account of 'World War Z' by people who were there. My main criticism is that many of these interviews/chapters are a bit too short and cut off when you're starting to warm to the character's story.

Overall I think it's very well done. There isn't as much one-on-one fighting and gore as some may like, but more discussion on the effects of society as a whole - done with what strikes me as thought and realism. Well worth buying, especially at that price!

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Dennis J Pale

Way better than the movie

Reviewed in Australia on 17 January 2018

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Exciting, well-researched, a gripping story told is an original (and believable) way. Somehow the author has managed to make a zombie apocalypse (and the international response) feel plausible than ever before. Um, thanks? Highly recommended.

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Cameron Stewart

One of the most compelling books I have ever had the pleasure to read.

Reviewed in Australia on 26 July 2014

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This book was an absolutely fantastic story from start to finish. The diversity of characters and the unique story that each person had to tell was a little frightening some times. You actually could see these things happening in a real world wide disaster. What l really found compelling though was the story being told through the Audible audio book version I bought. The voice actors were brilliant and brought an all most big screen feel to the story telling. They added a sense of realism that had me in tears more than a few times. I liked the film but found the story nothing like it. This really is one of those occasions where the movie never had a hope no matter how good it was of capturing the essence of a truly well crafted story.

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Jerico

Compelling

Reviewed in Australia on 1 January 2019

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I found this book utterly compelling, it was so believable. I love these books when they are so well written, highly recommend to anyone who loves this genre.

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matte

Best zombi book

Reviewed in Australia on 14 December 2020

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Forgotten how good this book is - beautifully written. Buy it, read it and enjoy . Many thanks for the story

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Steven Brisbane

Best zombies ever.

Reviewed in Australia on 14 May 2020

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The best zombie apocalypse novel you will read (and want to re-read) do not confuse it with the movie release, as they aren't comparable. This book is fantastic. Buy it.

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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 15 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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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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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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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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