Well this book earns a solid so-so rating. What an intriguing premise. In 1945 Hitler unleashes a devastating biological suicide weapon killing a huge portion of the Human race. Taking everybody with him as Nazi Germany goes down the drain. When the story begins it's three years later and our protagonist (an American pilot) is living in London (now a gigantic mausoleum) and being chased by British Nazis who believe that his blood can save them. A few survivors are immune while others are dying m...

Slowly but surely working my way through back catalogue of the late great James Herbert. '48 was a departure for him, not so much horror as a dystopian alternate history. As the title suggests, set in the post WW2 England (London to be specific), the plot follows an American pilot who has been surviving in the war ravaged city. He comes across a group of fellow survivors and they struggle on together against the remainder of british fascists. The twist here is that although Hitler did lose the w...

This wasn’t my first James Herbert and it won’t be my last, after really liking the Ash series and The Secret of Crickley Hall I couldn’t wait to read more from this author. 48 has such a unique plot, a book based in the aftermath of World War ll, what if Hitler had unleashed a deadly virus after his defeat. This book follows some of the survivors of the war and the virus as they navigate the new world – well what’s left of it. I think I would have enjoyed a this a little more if it would have d...

was a bit apprehensive of Herbert trying to do an American narrator but this ended up being really great, he was just such a talented writer, ugh!

I’m not sure where to start with this book. It’s post war with some post apocalyptic overtones thrown in for good measure. It’s hard to know where the book starts and finishes. The middle part is full action but it didn’t grab me

In this alternate 1948, London is devastated by a Nazi-created hemorrhagic plague. We enter this new reality three years after Hitler's rockets spread the Blood Death across London. The city is a decaying mess and ruling over the dead are a band of neo-Nazi British --the Blackshirts-- who are slowly dying from the plague. They hunt the handful of those immune to the disease. Why? Sport of course, didn't I said they where a bunch of Neo-Nazi, but mostly because they crave the blood of the immune ...

-Pulp modernizado y disfrazado.- Género. Ciencia-Ficción.Lo que nos cuenta. La Segunda Guerra Mundial terminó en el año 1945 y ahora, en el año 48 y en Londres, los pocos supervivientes de la plaga aguda conocida como Muerte Sanguínea, que llegó a Gran Bretaña desde Alemania acompañando a la tonelada de explosivos de las ojivas de las V2, tratan de capturar a los escasos inmunes gracias a su sangre tipo AB negativo para experimentar buscando una cura a la versión crónica, pero igualmente letal, ...

This story is set, as the title suggests in the year 1948 shortly after the end of the second world war. Hitler has released the "Blood Death" which is a genetically modified disease that wiped out the majority of the population. It is also indicated that the disease spread and wiped out most of the world, the only survivors being those who belong to the rare AB negative blood group.The story follows Hoke, a survivor of Hitler's deadly attack living in the city of London. He is trying to lay low...

My most favourite book of all time, one of the first full novels I ever read. I must have finished it upwards of a dozen times now.

Outstanding.

Eh, it was alright. Macho man with issues saves some people in an almost post-apocalypse type London in 1948, after Hitler ended the war by unleashing a genocidal disease. I thought at the start I'd love it (post-apocalypse! Places I recognise!) but ended up being about the characters, which is *usually* what I want in a book, but I didn't really care for these characters. Huge pile of cliches. The dog was alright but underused ;). The main narrator was awful. Must kill. Uh. Pretty woman. Must n...