"THE AUSCHWITZ VOLUNTEER: BEYOND BRAVERY," Captain Witold Pilecki's most comprehensive report about his nearly three-year undercover mission as a prisoner at Auschwitz. Published in English for the first time. Translated by Jarek Garlinski. Introduction by Prof. Norman Davies. Foreword by Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland.

A New York Times "Editors' Choice." The Wall St. Journal calls it one of the "Five Best" books on wartime secret missions. A Featured Selection of the History Book Club®. A Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club® and the Military Book Club®.

World War II, German-occupied Poland: in September 1940, Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered for a potentially suicidal undercover mission for the Polish Underground -- to get himself arrested by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz as a prisoner. His mission: to smuggle out intelligence about this new German concentration camp and build a resistance organization among the inmates.

Pilecki's remarkable mission was intentionally suppressed by the postwar Polish communist regime for nearly fifty years, and is virtually unknown in the West.

"The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery"
By Captain Witold Pilecki
Translated by Jarek Garlinski
Introduction by Norman Davies, FBA
Foreword by Rabbi Michael Schudrich

Hardcover: 978-1-60772-009-6 ($42.95)
Trade Paperback: 978-1-60772-010-2 ($34.95)
Ebook (all major formats): 978-1-60772-014-0 ($19.99)
Audiobook: Audible.com
Size: 6 in x 9 in
Page Count: 460
Includes: More than 80 black and white photos, maps and illustrations; contextualizing historical material; brief Selected Highlights of the Report; four appendices; Discussion Questions; Index.
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COMPANION BOOK: "Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp" by Jozef Garlinski. Garlinski, a member of the Polish Underground, was himself a prisoner at Auschwitz. In this meticulously researched work, Garlinski traces the evolution and operations of the principal prisoner resistance organizations, spearheaded by Polish Army officer Captain Witold Pilecki, along with evolution of Auschwitz from its founding by the Germans as a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners to its expansion into a death camp for Jews.
"The definitive study of the topic." -- Prof. Antony Polonsky, Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University.
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“The Color of Courage—A Boy at War: The World War II Diary of Julian Kulski.” Foreword by Lech Wałęsa, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Introduction by Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland.

This remarkable diary follows Julian Kulski, a 10-year-old Boy Scout when WWII begins. At age 12, Kulski is recruited into the clandestine Underground Army by his scoutmaster and begins training in military tactics and weapons handling. At 13, he accompanies his commander on a secret mission into the Warsaw Ghetto.

He is arrested by the Gestapo at age 14, but is rescued from near certain death at Auschwitz. By the age of 15, he joins the 9th Commando Company and fights in the Warsaw Uprising. Kulski ends the war as a 16-year-old POW—finally risking a dash for freedom onto an American truck instead waiting for "liberation" by the Soviets.

Winner of the Benjamin Franklin GOLD AWARD (for Interior Design) and SILVER AWARD (for Autobiography/Memoir), the most prestigious awards competition in independent publishing.

A Selection of the HISTORY BOOK CLUB® and the MILITARY BOOK CLUB®

“The Color of Courage—A Boy at War: The World War II Diary of Julian Kulski”
By Julian Kulski
Introduction by Rabbi Michael Schudrich
Foreword by Lech Wałęsa

Hardcover: 978-1-60772-015-7 ($29.95)
Trade Paperback : 978-1-60772-016-4 ($19.95)
Ebook (all major formats): 978-1-60772-019-5 ($12.99)
Size: 6 in x 9 in
Page Count: 496
Includes: More than 150 black & white photos, maps and illustrations; 11 groundbreaking Digital Extras (short historical videos); 2 appendices; contextualizing historical material; Discussion Questions; index
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"Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded" by John Guzlowski, with a foreword by Charles Ades Fishman.

Winner of the Benjamin Franklin GOLD AWARD (for Poetry), the most prestigious awards competition in independent publishing.
Winner of the MONTAIGNE MEDAL for Most Thought-Provoking Book of the Year.

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Innovative prose and poetry weave together to tell the story of war refugee immigrants in America. In this major tour de force, Guzlowski traces the arc of one of the millions of immigrant families of America, in this case, survivors of the maelstrom of World War II.

Through a haunting collage -- poems, prose and prose poems, frozen moments of time, sometimes dreamlike and surreal, other times realistic and graphic -- the story unfolds backwards through time.

This is the story of Guzlowski's own family: his parents were taken as slave laborers by the Germans and barely survived; his sister and he were born in Displaced Persons camps.

Raw and at the same time compassionate, Guzlowski illuminates a hidden facet of World War II and reflects the many ways in which trauma echoes through time, leaving us with a deeper, more visceral understanding of the human costs of war.

"Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded"
by John Guzlowski
Foreword by Charles Ades Fishman

Hardcover: 978-1-60772-021-8 ($21.95)
Ebook (all major formats): 978-1-60772-023-2 ($9.99)
Audiobook: Audible.com
Size: 6 in x 9 in
Page Count: 176
Includes: Six black & white photos; epilogue; appendix; Discussion Questions.
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"FIGHTING AUSCHWITZ: THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP" is the award-winning book that tells the incredible, virtually unknown, story of underground resistance among the prisoners at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. If you have any interest in World War II or the Holocaust, you must get this book!

"The definitive study of the topic." -- Prof. Antony Polonsky, Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University.

"The best-documented and also the most extensive description of the heroic effort...at Auschwitz." - Dr. Adam Cyra, Senior Curator, Dept. of Historical Research, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.

Winner of the Benjamin Franklin SILVER AWARD (for History), the most prestigious awards competition in independent publishing.

Author Jozef Garlinski, a member of the Polish Underground, was himself a prisoner at Auschwitz. In this meticulously researched work, Garlinski traces the evolution and operations of the principal prisoner resistance organizations, spearheaded by Polish Army officer Captain Witold Pilecki. At the same time, he illuminates the evolution of Auschwitz from its founding by the Nazi Germans as a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners to its expansion into a death camp for Jews.

"Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp"
by Józef Garliński
Introduction by Prof. Antony Polonsky
Foreword by Prof. M. R. D. Foot

Hardcover: 978-1-60772-024-9 ($42.95)
Trade Paperback: 978-1-60772-025-6 ($34.95)
Ebook (all major formats): 978-1-60772-029-4 ($19.99)
Size: 6 in x 9 in
Page Count: 592
Includes: More than 200 black & white photos, maps and illustrations; five appendices; extensive bibliography; detailed indexes.
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COMPANION BOOK: "The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery" by Captain Witold Pilecki -- Pilecki's most comprehensive report on his secret undercover mission at Auschwitz, published in English for the first time.

Pilecki volunteered to get himself arrested by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz as a prisoner, where his mission was to smuggle out intelligence and build a resistance organization among the prisoners. More info: polww2.com/AboutAuschwitzVolunteer

Young, Vassar-educated working mother Rulka Langer just barely escaped war-torn Warsaw with her two children at the outset of WW2. "The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt" is Rulka Langer's gripping account of that terrifying time.

Terry Tegnazian, president of Aquila Polonica, the book's publisher, talks about the book and her own passion for telling the story of Poland in WW2, on this 5-minute clip from "The Balancing Act," which airs on Lifetime Television.