
His successor, the former Vice President, mentions he could have "Made it an American crusade" but chose not to. They also go on to lead the UN mission to wipe out zombies in other countries, as well as provide most of the troops and supplies. The American president decides to go on the offensive against the zombies to "restore humanity's self-confidence" rather than waiting for the ghouls to rot away. America Saves the Day: Built up, but ultimately subverted.However, other indications that the outbreak began around 2007-2008 include the pre-war President's Chief of Staff being a thinly-veiled Karl Rove-expy, the wartime President and Vice-President are implied to be Colin Powell and Howard Dean, with hints that Senator Barack Obama was considered for the VP position instead before Dean was chosen.recently had an election the year prior to the outbreak starting (probably the 2010 midterms), the USS Saratoga is still afloat, and Crimea is still under Ukrainian control (having been occupied by Russia since 2014). There are some indications the outbreak possibly begins in 2011, judging from clues given in the book: Nelson Mandela is still alive, there's a Rugby World Cup going on at the start of the outbreak (2011 was the last one held before Mandela's death), the U.S.Alternate History: Recent events, such as the death of Nelson Mandela and the Russian annexation of the Crimea, have converted this from Next Sunday A.D.

The book itself is given several passing references and is implied to have been made during the initial stages of the outbreak.


The zombies themselves are non-living beings, and can only be stopped by direct injury to the brain.īrooks has also released the short story "Closure, Ltd." in the zombie anthology The New Dead, set in the same style and universe as World War Z.

In this world, zombies come about through a virus called Solanum, which is spread via bites from a zombie or fluid-to-fluid contact. It is written as a collection of interviews with survivors and important figures telling the story of a Zombie war that nearly causes the extinction of mankind. The book is designated satire, as it has a combination of horror, drama, and sociopolitical commentary. World War Z is a 2006 companion piece to the The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. "We lost a hell of a lot more than just people when we abandoned them to the dead."
