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For the audio adaptation of this novel, see Just War (audio drama).

Just War
Series:	Doctor Who - Virgin New Adventures
Release Number:	46
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companions:	Bernice Summerfield Roz Forrester Chris Cwej
Enemy:	Nazis
Setting:	England, 1941 Channel Islands, Guernsey, 1941
Author:	Lance Parkin
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Publication:	January, 1996
Format:	Paperback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0426204638
Previous Story:	Shakedown
Following Story:	Warchild

Publisher's Summary

'Tomorrow belongs to us, not you. If you were really from the future, Miss Summerfield, you would be a Nazi.'

March 1941: Britain's darkest hour. The Nazis occupy British soil and British citizens are being deported to European concentration camps. Six thousand people a month are dying in air raids on London. The United States show no sign of entering the war.

According to the Doctor, this isn't a parallel universe, it isn't an alternate timeline; and everything is running according to schedule. But now something, somewhere, has gone wrong. The Nazis are building a secret weapon, one that will have a decisive effect on the outcome of the War. Chris thinks it's a UFO, while Roz believes that the Luftwaffe have developed the largest bomber ever built. Only Benny may have seen the mysterious craft — but she's disappeared off the face of the Earth.

Characters

• The Doctor
  • The Doctor can be knocked out by chloroform.
  • A tag on his umbrella reads "If lost please return to Portland Street Library, Paddington, London.
  • Doesn't notice when Benny is naked.

• Bernice Summerfield
  • Benny is now 33 and her birthday is June 21.
  • She's proficient in; Egyptian, Hebrew, French, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Old English, Old Norse and most Martian dialects.
  • Benny gets beaten by the Nazis and suffers food and sleep deprivation (also at the hand of the Nazis). She has some scars on her back from being whipped that are probably permanent.

• Chris Cwej
  • Grows a handlebar mustache.

• Roz Forrester
  • Roz contemplates staying in London in 1941 and getting married.
  • Has a vision of herself dying.

• Melanie Bush
  • Mel makes a brief appearance in a flashback sequence.

References

• The TARDIS can remove itself from Minkowski Space.
• Benny has a Spacio-Temporal Alarm Becon that can monitor local transmission and communicate with the TARDIS.

Notes

• Just War was adapted by Jacqueline Rayner for Big Finish's first series of Professor Bernice Summerfield audio dramas.

• The audio drama version omits the Doctor, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester and instead focuses on Bernice Summerfield and her ex-husband Jason Kane (who was not part of the original story).

Continuity

• In NA: Happy Endings the Doctor tells the Brigadier of Benny's torture at the hands of the Nazis.
• Bernice Dora also turns up in Happy Endings and gives Benny her diary that is taken by the Nazis in this novel.

External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis - Just War
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Just War