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WORLD WAR Z - Max Brooks (2006)

“It goes by many names: 'The Crisis,' 'The Dark Years,' 'The Walking Plague,' as well as newer and more 'hip' titles such as 'World War Z' and 'Z War One.'”   The zombie genre is amazing. 'Shaun of the Dead' is hilarious, 'The Walking Dead' is one of the best shows on TV, and 'The Last of Us' is the closest you can get to a movie within a video game. However, all of these examples leave a lot of  unanswered   questions about the worlds which they try to create. That’s not their fault! But by following a single group or a single person in a single area of the world, we're inevitably left with a restricted perspective of the overall conflict. We never find out how the rest of the world is coping with the outbreak. 'Pandemic' and 'global' are words which we take for granted, but we never get to see the true scale of the disease.  However, in 'World War Z', there is no such pro