The Shadow in the Glass (novel)

The Shadow in the Glass
Doctor:	[[doctor::Sixth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (guest)
Main enemy:	Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler, Jr. Sergeant Henderson
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writers:	Justin Richards and Stephen Cole
Release details
Release number:	41
Release date:	April 2001
Format:	Paperback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-53838-4

Publisher's summary

May 17th 1944: A squadron of Hurricanes shoots down an unidentified aircraft over the Dorset village of Turelhampton. A routine operation. So why is the village immediately evacuated?

2001: Troops still occupy Turelhampton, guarding the village's dark secret. When a television documentary crew break through the cordon looking for a story, they find they've recorded more than they'd bargained for.

Meanwhile, in Cornwall, a journalist is witness to a terrifying ceremony: agents of the worst evil in history plan to unleash a new, unthinkable horror on the world.

Caught up in both a deadly conspiracy and historical mystery, retired Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart calls upon his old friend the Doctor. Half-glimpsed demons watch from the shadows as the Doctor and the Brigadier discover the last, and deadliest, secret of the Second World War.

Characters

• The Sixth Doctor
  • Drives like a lunatic.
  • Has enough medical knowledge to be able to take a pair of blood samples (Hitler and Eva Braun's).
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
  • In a rare show of anger, describes Hitler as a "bastard".
  • Tells the Doctor "you can look at the destruction of the past, or the hope of the future".
  • Doesn't trust the Sixth Doctor because he's the one whom he's met the least and thinks he's unpredictable.
  • Has contacts in the USSR.
  • Is living on the country estate we see in DW: Battlefield.
  • Doris is at her sister's.

References

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Notes

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Continuity

• NA: Timewyrm: Exodus also features Hitler.
• Earlier in his personal timeline, Winston Churchill met the Sixth Doctor in South Africa in November 1899, the Second Doctor in France in November 1915, the Sixth Doctor once again in London in December 1936 (PDA: Players) and the Eleventh Doctor in London in 1941 (DW: Victory of the Daleks).

Timeline

For the Sixth Doctor

• The Shadow in the Glass occurs after: ST: She Won't Be Home
• The Shadow in the Glass occurs before: ST: Water's Edge

For the Brigadier

• The Shadow in the Glass occurs after: PDA: Business Unusual
• The Shadow in the Glass occurs before: BFA: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor

External links

• The Shadow in the Glass at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Shadow in the Glass at The Whoniverse