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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NAMES
THE AUSCHWITZ VOLUNTEER
ONE OF "FIVE BEST" BOOKS ON WARTIME SECRET MISSIONS
Los Angeles, California, August 22, 2016 - The Wall Street Journal's "Five
Best" feature names The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Captain Witold
Pilecki as one of the five best books on wartime secret missions.
The Auschwitz Volunteer, published by Aquila Polonica Publishing in 2012, is
the first time that Witold Pilecki's most comprehensive report about his secret
undercover mission at Auschwitz has been published in English. Nicholas Kristof
of the New York Times describes Pilecki as "one of the great heroes of the 20th
century."
The book garnered rave reviews from major media. Here's a sample:
- New York Times (where it was chosen as Editors' Choice)-"a
historical document of the greatest importance."
- New Republic-"extraordinary...deserves to be read alongside the
accounts of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel."
- Atlantic-"fascinating."
- Publishers Weekly-"remarkable revelations."
- Jewish News-"a historical document of singular
importance...Certain to become a standard reference work in every major
Holocaust library collection."
- Tablet Magazine-"a work of supreme importance."
The Germans opened the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940. Members of
the Polish Underground rounded up by the Germans soon began disappearing into
the camp. In September of that year, Pilecki, an army officer in the
Underground, volunteered for an almost certainly suicidal secret mission: to
get himself arrested and sent to Auschwitz as a prisoner, where his mission was
to smuggle out intelligence and build a resistance network among the prisoners.
Barely surviving nearly three years of starvation, disease and brutality,
Pilecki accomplished his mission before escaping in April 1943. His clandestine
intelligence reports from the camp, received by the Allies as early as 1941,
were among the first eyewitness evidence of what was going on at Auschwitz.
The Auschwitz Volunteer won the prestigious PROSE Award for Autobiography &
Memoir from the Association of American Publishers (the only independently
published book to win a PROSE Award that year), as well as a Silver Benjamin
Franklin Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association. It was a
Featured Selection of the History Book Club and a Selection of the
Book-of-the-Month Club and the Military Book Club, and has been translated into
several languages, including German, Portuguese, Italian, and both complex and
simple Chinese.
Pilecki and his book have been the focus of numerous events, including the 2013
International Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, D.C.
The book carries an introduction by Professor Norman Davies and a foreword by
the Chief Rabbi of Poland. It is available in hardcover, trade paperback, ebook
and audiobook. More info at:
www.polww2.com/AboutAuschwitzVolunteer<http://www.polww2.com/AboutAuschwitzVolunteer>.
Watch the trailer on YouTube:
www.polww2.com/AuschwitzVolunteerTrailer<http://www.polww2.com/AuschwitzVolunteerTrailer>
.
The WSJ "Best Five" feature, as it appeared in the print edition on August 20,
2016, can be read at
www.polww2.com/AuschwitzVolunteerWSJ<http://www.polww2.com/AuschwitzVolunteerWSJ>.
The online version, which appeared on August 22, 2016, is available at
www.polww2.com/AuschwitzVolunteerWSJOnline<http://www.polww2.com/AuschwitzVolunteerWSJOnline>.
Aquila Polonica Publishing,
www.AquilaPolonica.com<http://www.AquilaPolonica.com>, is an award-winning
independent publisher based in Los Angeles, specializing in publishing the
Polish WWII experience in English. The company is a member of the Association
of American Publishers (AAP) and the Independent Book Publishers Association
(IBPA). Aquila Polonica's titles are distributed to the trade in the U.S.,
Canada, U.K., Europe, Australia and New Zealand by National Book Network,
www.nbnbooks.com<http://www.nbnbooks.com>, and are available from fine
bookstores, online retailers, and all major wholesalers.
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