D-Day 75: The Writing

We very deliberately re-created the Normandy Invasion in World War 1990: Polish Storm.

Advancing north into Poland are three army corps, the American VII and XI Corps and Commonwealth Corps of three British and one Canadian division.

We flirted with the idea of turning Schwarzkopf's Army of the Danube into a 20th century version of Sherman's Army of the Tennessee, singing Glory, Glory Hallelujah as they liberated the Poles. But doing so risked purple prose and ultimately seemed out of place.  Sherman's men were on an existential crusade to save the Union.

So we conveyed the grandness of the thing by making the liberation of Poland a job for the English speaking peoples. The French are off in the southeast corner about Krakow, but the main action is in the center, fought by the same peoples who landed in Normandy 75 years ago today.