The release date for the English version of 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War' by
Max Brooks is Sep 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Unimaginably near to wiping mankind was the Zombie War. Motivated by the need to record the raw, first-hand accounts of the survivors of those cataclysmic years, Max Brooks traversed the United States and the rest of the world, visiting devastated cities that had once been home to thirty million people as well as the most inaccessible and hostile regions on earth. He documented the accounts of men, women, and even children who encountered the living—or at the very least, the undead—in that terrible period of time. Which brings us to World War Z. We have never previously had access to a record that so well captures the intensity of terror and terror, as well as the unbreakable spirit of resistance, that engulfed human civilization throughout the plague years.
This invaluable chronicle covers the entire scope and duration of the Zombie War, from the now-famous 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 countless numbers sought out 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 unimaginable price, to the redoubt west of the Rockies where the North American tide finally started to turn.
Above all, the book portrays the human aspect of this historic event with a terrible intensity. As Mr. Brooks states 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?," facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires some courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable. Ultimately, isn't the human element the one real distinction between our adversary and the group we now call "the living dead"?"
Note: A portion of the data and information included in this version was previously released by the United Nations Postwar Commission.