Excerpt from Memories of a World Gone Mad by Professor John Downing (published March of 1998)
The rage and pain felt following the destruction of Marseille and the looting and burning of Paris and Amiens caused an uproar in not only the Union but the rest of the free world. many in the Union called for a Eye for an Eye response while others called for strikes on cultural sites in Germany. Following the events of June 28th-29th 1942, The Union Army made advances alongside the other Allies armies, clearing the French countryside of any German presence. While conducting these sweeps, reports of Germans troops being attacked by vengeful citizens and French soldiers and then being hanged from lamp posts, trees or even building began making their way back to Supreme Allied Command in London. General James Wilson, Commander of all Allied Forces issues an order to stop such attacks from being conducted on surrendering German troops. Though this order was obeyed by large parts of the Allied armies, such incidents still occurred as the Allies pushed east towards Germany itself. Cities such as Stuttgart, Hamburg, Berlin and Aachen were targeted by the Odin orbital weapon platform along with N2 Strikes fired from the Union Navy missile submarines off the German coast. This was followed by Operation Sobieski in Poland, where 30,000 troops were dropped into Warsaw during the following Warsaw Uprising launched by the Polish Home Army and the Jewish Resistance in the city. This constant strain of German supplies and the hammer blows from repeated Allied missile and air attacks stretched German Forces to the breaking point. After the Union Army landed on the coast of Poland near Danzig, the final nail in the coffin for German forces in the East was hammered in, cutting them off from supply and reinforcements. It was only a matter of Time at this point that the Allies would drive on Berlin from two fronts. While events in Europe were coming to their final end, The Soviet Union made moves in Mongolia and Manchuria to prepare for a possible invasion of Korea and Japan while the Union was distracted in Europe, unaware that the Union was readying its forces to invade those same areas after the fall of both iwo Jima and Okinawa. The Home Islands of Japan, now facing starvation and invasion, were completely cut off from the outside as no naval forces were left to face the Union Navy and Air Force. Events that followed are still debated but after being confronted with either subjugation to a Communist government or surrender to the Union Government, infighting erupted between the Army, who wanted to keep fighting and the navy, who at this point supported seeking terms of surrender. it was only after the bombings of Kobe, Yokohama and a N2 strike on the outskirts of Tokyo that the Emperor himself forced the Army to stand down and ordered his government to seek terms of surrender from the Union.
