I think he's supposed to have stolen his TARDIS to escape, but theres a bit of a plot hole in that the eleventh doctor somehow got a new TARDIS when he wasn't allowed to return to galifrey
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The Time War.
The Doctor In War has 481 pages.
The Doctor In War was created in 1918-11.
It happened before, the time war (probably) resulted in the eighth Doctor regenerating into the ninth, who kicked off the new series.
Casualties of War - Doctor Who - was created in 2000.
Theatre of War - Doctor Who - was created in 1994.
On the new series of Doctor Who, the Time War is classified as the conflict between the Time Lords and the Daleks. It spanned across the universe and even across Time itself. The conclusion of this war wiped the Time Lords from history, save for one; the Doctor. The Daleks were supposedly destroyed in the same mysterious ending maneuver, but it is shown throughout the series that at least a few survived.
The way they are numbered in the show (not counting the War Doctor), Peter Capaldi is the twelfth. If you insert the War Doctor (John Hurt), then Matt Smith was the twelfth.
The eighth Doctor regenerated offscreen and nothing is known about how or why he regenerated. The eighth Doctor appeared onscreen only once in a TV movie. We know th Time War happened between the TV movie and the start of the 2005 series. It's widely assumed that whatever the Doctor did to end the Time War caused him to regenerate.