NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 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
