World War Z

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THE ZOMBIE WAR ALMOST ERADICATED HUMANITY.
Working for the United Nations Postwar Commission, Max Brooks had unparalleled access to the architects of victory. While the UN report provided an authoritative factual account, here one of its senior researchers presents myriad first-person accounts that vividly capture the terrible human cost of the outbreak.
From Dr Kwang Jingshu, the Chinese doctor who examined 'Patient Zero', to Paul Redeker, the deeply controversial author of Plan Orange, Brooks has spoken with more of the key players than any man alive. And he has recorded the testimony of veterans of the Battle of Yonkers, of Japan's 'new samurai' and castle garrisons from northern Europe. Throughout, the author captures the full extent of the social and political transformations brought by the outbreak.
The disturbing nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader. But as Brooks says, we cannot hide behind the mind-numbing statistics... Tovább

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THE ZOMBIE WAR ALMOST ERADICATED HUMANITY.
Working for the United Nations Postwar Commission, Max Brooks had unparalleled access to the architects of victory. While the UN report provided an authoritative factual account, here one of its senior researchers presents myriad first-person accounts that vividly capture the terrible human cost of the outbreak.
From Dr Kwang Jingshu, the Chinese doctor who examined 'Patient Zero', to Paul Redeker, the deeply controversial author of Plan Orange, Brooks has spoken with more of the key players than any man alive. And he has recorded the testimony of veterans of the Battle of Yonkers, of Japan's 'new samurai' and castle garrisons from northern Europe. Throughout, the author captures the full extent of the social and political transformations brought by the outbreak.
The disturbing nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader. But as Brooks says, we cannot hide behind the mind-numbing statistics of the official reports. It is time to face the true horror of the Zombie War.
Max Brooks's previous book, The Zombie Survival Guide, was adopted as a required text by all of the world's basic military training programs during the recent global conflict. Before the war, Esquire magazine called it 'so meticulous and well researched that it's more scary than funny'.
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