![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The political landscape is drastically different as well. Ten years after the war the world is still badly damaged, millions of zombies are still wandering about but there are under the sea, in mountains and more isolated areas. The UK goes slower but more carefully and takes five years to retake England. Russia and France also carry out a similar effort, though theirs is more costly as they rely on brute force. The USA build zombie-specific weapons and training before starting a three-year-long effort to retake the USA (from both zombies and cheesed-off survivors they left to die). Some countries are content to simply let the zombies decay naturally but the USA insist on going on an offensive to retake the land lost. The world slowly rebuilds over seven years, though in a much more limited space. Their military mutinies and uses nukes on its leaders and then carries out a retreat. China however is the exception resulting in it becoming the worst-hit country. All over the globe, everyone retreats to colder areas or easily defensible places. In Europe, safe zones are set up on peninsulas, the Alps and Denmark. In the UK we retreated to Scotland and Ireland. Hundreds die from exposure and starvation. In the USA those small, abandoned communities are encouraged to go North as zombies don’t do well in cold. South Africa starts establishing safe ones through a ‘distraction’ technique involving sacrificing small communities. For weeks civilisation wobbles on the edge of destruction. The US tries to restore order with a show of military strength, but this fails terribly, mostly because zombies can’t be scared by injury. Nerve gas is used and basically, people are utter dicks to each other, while we all freak out. There’s even a nuclear exchange between Iran and Pakistan. The panic kills more people than the zombies. However, eventually, it does become a global problem despite downplaying by many governments and the Great Panic begins. Israel however took it seriously and withdrew behind its borders and built a wall. The disease was acknowledged globally when it hit Africa, but nothing was done, and it was dismissed as it was seen to only be affecting poorer countries. The disease spread (despite cover-up attempts) via the black market, human trafficking, and refugees. The book establishes that the pandemic began in China and is an old disease that has had a resurgence due to a geological incident. ![]() The story follows Max, the book’s narrator ad agent of the USA’s post-war commission as he travels the world interviewing other survivors. 20 years post the start of the zombie ‘pandemic’ and 10 years post the end, we won. The audio version of the story is performed by a cast rather than a single narrator. The book is a sequel of sorts to Brooks’ other novel the Zombie Survival Guide. I particularly enjoyed how the accounts don’t just focus on the ‘ahh’ factor of the zombies but other ramifications including social, political, religious, economic, and environmental changes. The book has a narrator but is a collection of individual accounts which take place across the globe. It’s an interesting book to read, not just for its content but for how it is presented, the five-chapter structure is interesting as is how information is relayed to the reader. The book takes place during a zombie apocalypse and is broken down into five chapters. It was also made into a film that starred Brad Pitt and was released in 2013. This is a novel by Max Brooks, published by Crown Publisher in 2006. Today I want to talk to you about World War Z. ![]()
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