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They used to call it the 'Great War'. But I'll be damned if I could tell you what was so 'great' about it. They also called it 'the war to end all wars'...'cause they figured it was so big and awful t...

Max Brooks

They used to call it the 'Great War'. But I'll be damned if I could tell you what was so 'great' about it. They also called it 'the war to end all wars'...'cause they figured it was so big and awful t...

Tags: truth, war, world war i

They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and...

Max Brooks

They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and...

About Author
Maximillian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American author. He is the son of comedian Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. He was a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.

Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confidence...

Max Brooks

Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confidence...

Tags: human, living dead, zombie

America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say perception because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for...

Max Brooks

America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say perception because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for...

Tags: americans, victory, war

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

Max Brooks

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

Tags: economics, economy, war

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

Max Brooks

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

Tags: zombies

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

Max Brooks

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

Tags: falsity, lies, max brooks, truth, world war z

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

Max Brooks

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

Tags: fight, sun tzu

Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear-all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human heart are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows i...

Max Brooks

Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear-all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human heart are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows i...

Tags: inspirational, love

Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong...

Max Brooks

Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong...

This is the time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our physical survival, but for the survival of our civilization. We don't have the luxury of ol...

Max Brooks

This is the time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our physical survival, but for the survival of our civilization. We don't have the luxury of ol...

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

Max Brooks

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

Unlike the escapee, your team of hunters will be out during the brightest, hottest, most excruciating part of the day. Make sure each hunter is well supplied with water and antisunstroke accessories.

Max Brooks

Unlike the escapee, your team of hunters will be out during the brightest, hottest, most excruciating part of the day. Make sure each hunter is well supplied with water and antisunstroke accessories.

Tags: the zombie survival guide

It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.

Max Brooks

It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.

The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. Fear, he used to say, fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe. That blew me away....

Max Brooks

The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. Fear, he used to say, fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe. That blew me away....

But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for personal accounts of individuals not...

Max Brooks

But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for personal accounts of individuals not...

Fear sells.

Max Brooks

Fear sells.

. . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.

Max Brooks

. . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

Max Brooks

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

Max Brooks

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

Tags: writing, me, movies