TY - BOOK AU - Brooks,Max TI - World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war SN - 9780307346612 PY - 2007///] CY - New York PB - Broadway Paperbacks KW - Zombies KW - Fiction KW - Horror fiction KW - lcgft KW - War fiction KW - Science fiction N1 - "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Crown Publishers ... in 2006"--Title page verso; Warnings -- Blame -- The great panic -- Turning the tide -- Home front USA -- Around the world, and above -- Total war -- Good-byes N2 - This apocalyptic horror novel is a collection of individual accounts narrated by an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission, following the devastating global conflict against the "zombieplague." Other passages record a decade-long desperate struggle, as experienced by people of various nationalities. The personal accounts also describe the resulting social, political, religious, and environmental changes. The novel tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts "as told to the author" by various characters around the world. A Chinese doctor encounters one of the earliest zombie cases at a time when the Chinese government is ruthlessly suppressing any information about the outbreak that will soon spread across the globe. The tale then follows the outbreak via testimony of smugglers, intelligence officials, military personnel and many others who struggle to defeat the zombie menace ER -