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This review is of the military horror novel "'48" by James Herbert, first published in 1996. Without giving away too much of the plot itself, the basic essence of the book is about a London where... more

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  • 43 of 43 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    kylecoare

    4 Stars 1948 17/04/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very Gripping, good descriptions

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Hours of sleep lost!

    JAMES HERBERT - '48 ------------------------------- James Herbert has been writing horror fiction for many years now, with such classics as "the Rats" and "Haunted" to name just a couple, these books have pushed him to the forefront of British horror and rightly so. Up until recently I didn't know much about Herbert as I was stuck in a bit of a rut, where I would want to read something, but not know of any good authors, seeing as I had already read all the Stephen King books and the James Patterson ones, I felt like something different, so I picked up my dads copy of Herbert's "Nobody True" ... more
  • 81 of 81 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    shewhosmiles

    5 Stars Thrills, Spills and Bone Chilling Action 11/10/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Tense, action packed, thought provoking, imaginative, fascinating absobing read.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Left me wanting more.

    The action kicks in straight away with Hoke and his dog Cagney trying to escape from a gang of about 60 Blackshirts who had discovered one of his secret hideaways in London, Buckingham Palace no less. The description of Hoke dodging shots while whizzing along corridors and bumping down carpeted stairs on his motorbike was so captivating that I was drawn into the book immediately and found myself urging Hoke to escape the bullets. Set in London in 1948, James Herbert produced one of those What If stories by changing history. The allies still won the war but the Germans have the ultimate revenge ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Sa1sysoo

    4 Stars '48 - 28 Days Later in WWII 07/05/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Incrdibly easy to read, and less supernatural than his other books

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Disturbing scenarios... what he does best!

    I hope to do this James Herbert review more justicve than I did his last! I encountered this book in the none-to-glamorous venue of my local Post Office. Seeing that it was only £2.95, I thought, why not? I had enjoyed the last Herbert book I had read, and I had heard elsewhere that he had received good reviews for some of his other books, which I am yet to read. '48 is based three years after the end of World War II, but it didn't end in the way that you and I know. It was brought to a a slightly premature end by Hitler, who through desperation to win the war at any costs unleashed a chemical ... more
  • 32 of 32 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 julwhite

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    5 Stars A horror novel by James Herbert - if WWII had ended differently 18/04/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Intriguing storyline, well-written and engaging

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Some characters could have done with some more development

    This review is of the military horror novel "'48" by James Herbert, first published in 1996. Without giving away too much of the plot itself, the basic essence of the book is about a London where the allies didn't win the war. Instead the Germans were able to send V2 missiles to attack the city with a deadly disease, which only those with the AB blood group were able to survive. Although most of the city's population had been killed as they were going about their usual life, some had survived but were even weakening. It was the leader of this group, Lord Hubble, that wanted to the blood from ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    apple_scruff

    2 Stars '48 Fails To Launch 21/08/2006
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages action, adventure, description

    Disadvantages Disadvantages shallow, two dimensional characters, unoriginal, confusing at times

    I was looking for something to read, anything really, it being the summer holidays there's not a lot to do, and so I stumbled across James Herbert's '48 at my local market book store; a snip at 95p. I picked it up and examined the cover. The first thing I noticed was that the author's name was marginally larger than the title of the book indicating that this author had written several well respected books before this one. Upon further research Herbert is a number one best seller, his first published work pushing him right up to number one. I read the blurb, phrases in bold which read 'THE ... more

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Type Fiction
Genre Horror
Title 48
Author James Herbert
ISBN 0002242877; 0006476007; 0061052930; 075315563X

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