In the prologue, the failure of the Normandy landings invasion causes the United States to withdraw from the war in European theatre of World War II and General Dwight D. Eisenhower to retire in disgrace. The US continues the Pacific War against Empire of Japan and, led by General Douglas MacArthur, wins Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Europe, Nazi Germany successfully Operation Sea Lion the United Kingdom, resulting in George VI of the United Kingdom and the rest of the British royal family fleeing to Canada in exile while still ruling the British Empire; under Nazi supervision Edward VIII regains the throne while Wallis Simpson becomes his List of British consorts. Winston Churchill also goes into exile in Canada and lives there until his death in 1953. Germany corrals the rest of Europe (except neutral Switzerland and the Vatican City) into the Greater German Reich, known as "Germania" for short. German society is largely clean and orderly - at least on the surface - with the Schutzstaffel reorganized into an elite, peacetime police force.