The Shadow in the Glass (novel): Difference between revisions

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|image        = The Shadow in the Glass.jpg  

|number      = 41

|companions  = [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brig]]

|featuring    = [[Tom Osgood]]

|enemy        = [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Adolf Hitler, Jr.|Hitler Jr]], [[George Henderson]]  

|setting      =[[Turelhampton]], [[17 May]] [[1944]] and [[2001]]; [[Cornwall]]

|writer      = [[Justin Richards]] and [[Stephen Cole]]

|release date = [[2 April (releases)|2 April]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]

'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the forty-first novel in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Justin Richards]] and [[Stephen Cole]], released [[2 April (releases)|2 April]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]] and featured the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]].

This novel is rare in that it only features the Doctor and the Brigadier with no other companions alongside the Doctor, although journalist [[Claire Aldwych]] serves in a companion-esque role.

''[[17 May|May 17th]] [[1944]]: A squadron of {{w|Hawker Hurricane|Hurricane}}s 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, [[retire]]d 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 [[World War II|Second World War]].

When a squadron of RAF Hurricanes shoots down an unidentified aircraft over Turelhampton, the village is immediately evacuated. But why is the village still guarded by troops in 2001? When a television documentary crew break through the cordon looking for a story, they find they've recorded more than they'd bargained for.

''An adventure set partly in the Second World War, featuring the Sixth Doctor as played by Colin Baker and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.''

== References ==

* [[Doris Lethbridge-Stewart|Doris]] is away for a week of sunshine and sangria with her niece.

* The Doctor has enough medical knowledge to be able to take a pair of [[blood]] samples.

* The novel was reprinted as part of ''The History Collection'' in [[February (releases)|February]] [[2015 (releases)|2015]], with a new cover and introduction by Richards and Cole.

* The audiobook version is narrated by actress [[India Fisher]], best known for playing companion [[Charley Pollard]] in the audio adventures from [[Big Finish Productions]].

* In their introduction to the novel, Cole and Richards note that certain parts of history were omitted where they contradicted the theories here, but also add that the changes are minor, such as claiming that the body-double of Hitler in the water tower and the doctor who declared Eva Braun dead were each unknown.  

* When contemplating changing history by stealing the occular celluprime in 1944 before the Nazis can take it, the Doctor reflects that '[[Fourth Doctor|the tall one with the teeth and the dark mass of curly hair]]' would have done it while '[[Third Doctor|the ruffle-shirted toff with the big nose]]' would have strongly objected to just the idea of changing history like that, although the matter becomes academic when he finds that the object has already been stolen.

* 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]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]'') the [[Ninth Doctor]] in London in [[1939]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Oncoming Storm (audio story)|The Oncoming Storm]]'') and the [[Eleventh Doctor]] in London in [[1941]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'')

shadow glass.jpg|''[[The History Collection]]'' cover