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
