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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

As of May 2011, the paperback version of the book, published in 2007, remains an Amazon top seller with a sales rank of 306.  According the the Dallas Morning News, the book is "probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles's War of the Worlds radio broadcast."  The authentic feel generated by the oral history format makes it easy to slip into the mindset of history researcher.
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