A lot more detail about the guerillas here, and a much clearer picture of the 22nd century, which is a very unpleasant place indeed.
Again, the Brigadier is given more to do; he rams an Ogron with his jeep, then 'coolly' grabs his sub-machine gun and shoots it before being thanked by the Doctor.
The last time we see Anat, she's heading bravely off into the dawn. Possibly the new dawn, observes Terrance, but if not, 'she could always go on fighting.' Thus avoiding having to explain what happens to her when the past is changed, while still ending on a positive note.
And also resolving an unusual narrative problem, how to let people get out of the story alive without it sounding rubbish. It's quite unusual, isn't it, for people to leave a DW story before the big finish without getting killed. Either they're around to say goodbye to the Doctor, and gurn at the disappearing TARDIS, or they die heroically in the climax.
(No doubt a hundred counter-examples will now emerge. Like Ace's granny in Fenric for a start.)
The appearance of the extra Doctor and Jo in the lab scene is properly explained at the end of the book. Incidentally, the TARDIS itself is involved, not just the console. I never liked the console being outside the TARDIS, because I was afraid the Doctor would never get it back in again
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