Iron Maiden in a successfull novel

[harrisdevot]

I've just finished reading a book called World War Z, written by Max Brooks (son of movie maker Mel Brooks). It tells the story of the first world war beetween mankind and zombies (I know it sounds stupid, but its a very pleasing reading and very well constructed book) ; it does so using testimonies of survivors from different countries. One of them is a soldier who participated to the first great victory against the living dead, and he says that they used to listen to Iron Maiden before the battle. He is very specific, naming The trooper, talking about the bassline and Dickinson's words. It amused me a lot, and it made the scene a lot easier to picture in my mind. Thought some of you would be interested.
I read the french translation, so it's no use I give you the page number.

 

[Night Prowler]

That's an awesome book. Btw. I talked about that in another thread:

I finished reading World War Z. It's a brilliant book.
In the book, US Army used The Trooper as a warm-up song before battles against zombies
EDIT: I copied that part from the book:

Spoiler

The dogs were recalled, racing behind our lines. We switched over to our Primary Enticement Mechanism. Every army had one by now. The Brits would use bagpipes, the Chinese used bugles, the Sou’fricans used to smack their rifles with their assegais 5 and belt out these Zulu war chants. For us, it was hard-core Iron Maiden. Now, personally, I’ve never been a metal fan. Straight classic rock’s my thing, and Hendrix’s “Driving South” is about as heavy as I get. But I had to admit, standing there in that desert wind, with “The Trooper” thumping in my chest, I got it. The PEM wasn’t really for Zack’s benefit. It was to psych us up, take away some of Zack’s mojo, you know, “take the piss out,” as the Brits say. Right about the time Dickinson was belting “As you plunge into a certain death” I was pumped, SIR charged and ready, eyes fixed on this growing, closing horde. I was, like, “C’mon, Zack, let’s fuckin’ do this!”

 

[harrisdevot]

Oh, I'm sorry, I missed that one, thanks for telling me. Anyway, I hope we both urge more people to read it.