Just War, 1996, Lance Parkin
A fairly strong and gripping book, if you can get through the long, long passages of Benny being tortured by Nazis and Roz being condescended to by racists. The strength of the book is the core idea, though, that for all the times the Doctor goes around saving worlds, he occasionally has to deal with problems of his own making. Here, he has to stop the Germans from developing stealth bomber technology that would have allowed them to win the second World War, technology that they only almost develop because he had the wrong conversation with the wrong person years earlier. It’s the Doctor as fallible, something that was frequently missing from the “New Adventures” period.

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