This article is about the novel. For the 2013 film, see World War Z (film). For the video game based on the film, see World War Z (video game).
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World War Z
World War Z book cover.jpg
First edition cover
Author Max Brooks
Country United States
Language English
Genre Horror, post-apocalyptic fiction
Published 2006 (Crown)
Media type Print (hardback & paperback), e-book, audiobook
Pages 342 pp
ISBN 0-307-34660-9
OCLC 65340967
Dewey Decimal
813/.6 22
LC Class PS3602.R6445 W67 2006
Preceded by The Zombie Survival Guide
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) is an apocalyptic horror novel by 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.