Major military engagements end in failure, even in the United States where sophisticated weaponry and equipment prove no match for the zombie infestation. As zombies begin to slowly take over the planet, there is no clear plan of action coming from any country. It is a world divided by political partisanship, factionalism, and national borders where each individual is out for themselves.
They interview several people who portray a world entirely unprepared for the outbreak of a catastrophic virus or any type of apocalyptic scenario. In the first three parts of the book, titled “Warnings,” “Blame,” and “The Great Panic” respectively, the narrator depicts the build-up of events leading to the Zombie War. While not all interview subjects are portrayed as heroic, the book stands as a testament to human endurance and survival in the face of an extinction-level event. The narrator often keeps questions to a minimum to allow their interview subjects to do most of the talking, thereby letting their words speak for themselves. Each part of the book is a collection of interviews the narrator conducted with survivors around the world.
The narrator, who works in some capacity for the UN, feels their version of events-which was originally intended to be the official version-possesses the raw emotion necessary to prevent the situation from ever happening again. This guide references the Penguin Random House paperback edition.Īfter a brief introduction in which the unidentified narrator sets up the book as a marked departure from the official report on the zombie war issued by the United Nation’s Postwar Commission, World War Z is divided into eight parts. He is currently a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point. Brooks is the son of comedic director Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft.
Author Max Brooks has penned several other works of fiction, including the novel Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre (2020), the short-story collection Closure, Limited: And Other Zombie Tales (2012), and the graphic novels The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks (2009) and The Harlem Hellfighters (2014), among others. It has sold millions of copies around the world and was subsequently turned into a successful movie starring Brad Pitt, released in 2013, and a highly rated video game, released in 2019. The book was a critical and commercial success, generally receiving positive reviews and spending several weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a horror fiction novel by Max Brooks published in 2006.
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