World War Z
Author: Max Brooks
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This is one of the most creative books that I have read in a long long time. The author presents a set of oral histories of World War Z, from all over the world, but knitted together to form a roughly sequential story of the war from beginning to end. The interviewees are engaging, varied, and authentic. The interviewer is superb and the footnotes are extraordinary - especially when they point out factual errors in the interviewee's statements.
The oral history approach makes you lose track of the obvious big picture - we did not fight a global war against Zombies! How one could even remotely forget that is a testament to the author's skill (or the reader's advancing age). This is the author's second book on the Zombie War - the first being "The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead". I may have to read that as well.
Recommended for all, except those with an overactive imagination.