Aquila Polonica: 5 books
Maps and Shadows
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This stunning new novel is drawn from a little known chapter of World War II history - the brutal Soviet deportations of 1.5 million Polish civilians to forced labor camps in Siberia shortly after the Soviets occupied eastern Poland at the beginning of the war. Beautifully written, lyrical and poetic,...
The Auschwitz Volunteer
Beyond Bravery
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the...
The Ice Road
An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In a forgotten chapter of history, 1.5 million Polish civilians—arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939—were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests and steppes of the Soviet Union. The Ice...
Echoes of Tattered Tongues
Memory Unfolded
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Winner 2017 Benjamin Franklin GOLD AWARD for POETRY.
Winner 2017 MONTAIGNE MEDAL for most thought-provoking books.
"A searing memoir." — Shelf Awareness
"Powerful...Deserves attention and high regard." — Kevin Stein, Poet Laureate of Illinois
"Devastating,...
The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt
War Through a Woman's Eyes 1939-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
During the opening months of World War II, Vassar-educated career woman Rulka Langer (1906-1993) risked her life and relied on her wits to keep her two small children and elderly mother out of harm's way. "The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt" is a rare eyewitness account of the early, chaotic...