Product Description

Hawkswick Hall is a psychiatric hospital for World War I victims of shell-shock. When the Doctor arrives to investigate why certain patients are behaving murderously, mutilating local livestock and domestic pets, he concludes that an unseen evil force has unleashed their psychic suffering.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #588923 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 271 pages

Customer Reviews

War, uh-huh, what is it good for?
*Meant to give this four stars!*

Casualties of War is initially a slow-burner, The Doctor seems to have lost his memory but this isn't immediately evident from the way he behaves, however when he arrives in a sleepy English village he is soon up to his eyes in mystery, death and zombies and things pick up.
New writer Steve Emmerson has written in a prose style that is somewhat fragmented and occasionally disjointed but at least consistent.

The plot has several holes, but Casualties of War is certainly more accessible than previous original novel `The Burning' in terms of plot, character, and writing style. The Doctor may no longer know who he is, but he is still as enigmatic and fascinating as he always was, and this is the novel's strength.

Casualty of sleep
A gripping read, any Dr Who book previous pales into insignificance.
The Eighth doctor comes to Earth during the First world war and falls into a sleepy village that is being inhabited by ZOMBIES!.
Once this has been established, a gripping yarn ensues, written as much like a detective novel as Agatha Christie would have been proud.
To tell any more will ruin the book, but just read what is simply one of the best Sci-fi/Dr Who novels around.

Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and Smile...
I found 'Casualties of War' to be worthy of following in the footsteps of the preceeding 'Who' novel, 'The Burning'. In many ways it reminded me of an earlier, much-praised book, 'Human Nature', partially due to a similar setting and because the Doctor shares a picnic with a lady who shows a keen romantic interest in him.

The book loses a point just for the simple fact that it never explained *why* the villain was doing what they were doing, what they hoped to achieve, or where they got their power from.