World War Z - Max Brooks Reviews

If society is ever going to learn from its mistakes it must make sure that it studies its own history. With the 70th anniversary of the start of WW2 the number of people who were there and can still tell their tales is diminishing. Therefore, we must interview and preserve as much of this living history as we can to help prevent another world ...  Read the complete review

'It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse. Faced with a future of mindless, man-eating horror, humanity was forced to accept the logic of world ...  Read the complete review

If you have read any other reviews of this book already then you know it is an excellent read from cover to cover. If you have not read any other reviews then let me be the first to tell you this book is amazing! The book is a full of eye witness accounts of the fictional World War Z. The zombie basically kills alot of the worlds ...  Read the complete review

Supposedly, the war is over. I mean, technically it is and has been for ten years, but there are still millions of zombies active across the globe and, each year, cleanup crews venture far and wide, mopping up the infestation where they can. Billions are (un)dead and each survivor has their own story... Author Max Brooks writes from the ...  Read the complete review

This book is breathtaking. World War Z is written as the gathered collections of survivors of the 'Zombie War'. Set ten years after the war, the book recounts tales from all over the world, from the first outbreaks, to the 'Great Panic', to humanity's attempts to fight back. The Zombie War takes place at some indeterminate ...  Read the complete review

Ok, only one word to describe this book; amazing. Really didn't know what I was expecting from this but I know that what I got wasn't it. This is an oral account of the war that almost obliterated humanity; people started to die and then get back up and kill those around them. Zombies were taking over the world and it didn't take long, they have ...  Read the complete review

Ok, so the worst has happened and the dead are returning to life, mindlessly tracking down the living to add to their ever growing numbers. A formidable and terrifying enemy without fear, emotion, empathy or biological needs who join in huge herds to overcome human resistance. Rotting hordes have infested urban areas and have driven the human race ...  Read the complete review