World War Z (novel) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

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00:01:48 1 Plot
00:10:29 2 Development
00:13:15 3 Analysis
00:13:25 3.1 Social commentary
00:14:27 3.2 Themes
00:14:35 3.2.1 Survivalism
00:15:49 3.2.2 Fear and uncertainty
00:17:07 4 Reception
00:20:00 5 Audiobook
00:21:13 5.1 Cast
00:21:25 5.2 Reception
00:23:03 6 Film adaptation
00:24:12 7 See also



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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 zombie apocalyptic horror novel written by American author Max Brooks. The novel is a collection of individual accounts narrated by an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission, following the devastating global conflict against the zombie plague. 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.
World War Z is a follow-up to Brooks' fictitious survival manual The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), but its tone is much more serious. It was inspired by The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two (1984) by Studs Terkel, and by the zombie films of George A. Romero (1968–2009). Brooks used World War Z to comment on government ineptitude and US isolationism, while also examining survivalism and uncertainty. The novel was a commercial hit and was praised by most critics.
Its 2007 audiobook version, performed by a full cast including Alan Alda, Mark Hamill, and John Turturro, won an Audie Award. A film with the same name as the novel, directed by Marc Forster and starring Brad Pitt, was released in 2013, and a video game of the same name, based on the movie, was released in 2019 by Saber Interactive.