[Doctor Who · Target-Library 70] • The War Games

David Troughton reads this thrilling novelisation of a classic Doctor Who

adventure, first published by Target Books in 1979.

Mud, barbed wire, the smell of death.... The year is 1917 and the TARDIS has

materialised on the Western Front during the First World War. Or has it? For

very soon, the Doctor finds himself pursued by the soldiers of Ancient Rome;

and then he and his companions are reliving the American Civil War of 1863.

And is this really Earth, or just a mock-up created by the War Lords?

As Doctor Who solves the mystery, he has to admit he is faced with an evil of

such magnitude that he cannot combat it on his own - he has to call for the

help of his own people, the Time Lords. So, for the first time, it is revealed

who is Doctor Who - a maverick Time Lord who 'borrowed' the TARDIS without

permission. By appealing to the Time Lords he gives away his position in Time

and Space. Thus comes about the Trial of Doctor Who....