World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

World War Z is a novel by Max Brooks that tells the story of the zombie war. The book is a follow up to his previous novel, The Zombie Survival Guide. The story is told through the individual accounts of the survivors, each characters story revealng more and more of the plot. World War Z refers to a Class 4 zombie outbreak (a class 4 outbreak literally means a zombie controlled world) that threatened the safety of the human race. Each of the characters tell there own individual stories of hardship, survival, and fear.