I read this in 2 days. Our city is recovering from a devastating earthquake so really, post-apocalyptic novels (and scary zombie ones at that) exploring both the best and worst of human society should really be nowhere near my bedtime reading pile. However, despite the somewhat horrifying and gruesome premise of this book I really really loved it. The post-war "accounts" helped to create a globalality (did I just invent a word?) to the war that a first hand account would have failed to achieve. In places the cultural stereotypes were a little predictable, but at the heart of the story was one of survival despite the odds, a bone-chilling piece of fiction that you can't help but keep thinking about...what if. Probably another to the pile of 'you'll either love it or hate it' books I have read this year, I think readers will either be taken with the style of writing or hate it for turning what could have been a zombie thriller into a piece of militarized fictionpretendingtobenonfiction. Either way, a stunning read.