December 11, 2025 – Vox Populi features poems from Echoes of Tattered Tongues – In its December 11, 2025 post, Vox Populi featured two poems from our award-winning book Echoes of Tattered Tongues by John Guzlowski: “Cattle Train to Magdeburg” and “How Her Mother and Sister Died.” Vox Populi is a “curated webspace for Poetry, Politics, and Nature with over 10,000 daily visitors and over 9,000 archived posts.” The post generated a lot of thoughtful comments from readers. Worth checking out!  Online or in pdf….

December 5–7, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – Polish Perspectives Booth at 2025 NCSS Conference – Once again, Aquila Polonica was pleased to donate several of its titles and other materials for the Polish Perspectives booth at the 2025 Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. From our online store we donated a 303 Squadron tote bag in white, a Polish Underground jigsaw puzzle, and an Aquila Polonica Eagle mouse pad in red. Written materials donated by us as handouts included our “Poland in WWII–An Overview” flyer and our “Poland in WWII–Quick Facts” flyer. Almost all the books were gone by the end of the first day, and one lucky professor was chosen to receive the three items from our online store. Click here for more photos.

November 21, 2025 – Aquila Polonica Article Prize Winner – Dr. Louisa M. McClintock, researcher at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Holocaust Justice Project, has won the 2025 Aquila Polonica Article Prize for her article “In the Shadow of the Crematoria: Investigating Mass Atrocities in Poland, 1944–1945,” The Journal of Modern History, Volume 96, Number 3 (September 2024), https://doi.org/10.1086/731362.. The biennial Aquila Polonica Article Prize is given to the author(s) of the best English-language article published during the previous two years on any aspect of Polish studies. Administered by the Polish Studies Association (“PSA”), which appoints the independent judges, the award carries a $500 honorarium donated by Aquila Polonica Publishing. More details….   For the press release click here.

November 15, 2025 – John Guzlowski Interview on WWII Historical Fiction -John Guzlowski, author of Echoes of Tattered Tongues, is interviewed by host Andrew Clinnick in the first episode of his podcast WWII Historical Fiction. Listen to Part I of the interview here.

November 8, 2025 – 303 Squadron Serbian Edition – We just received our copy of the Serbian edition of our book 303 Squadron: The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron. Looks great!!

April 5, 2025 – “Who I Am/Who We Are? A conversation with John Guzlowski“ – John Guzlowski, author of the award-winning book Echoes of Tattered Tongues, was the featured speaker at the Polish American Historical Association webinar titled “Who I Am/Who We Are?,” moderated by Izabella Kimak of the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland.

March 26, 2025 – Charlottesville, VA – The Ice Road featured at Men’s Nonfiction Book Club – At their March meeting, the Men’s Nonfiction Book Club in Charlottesville, VA, discussed The Ice Road by Stefan Waydenfeld. They invited the author’s daughter, Alice Faintich, to lead the discussion. The men were full of praise for the book, saying “it reads like an adventure story.”

December 25, 2024 – John Guzlowski Winner of Evergreen Wishes Anthology Competition – Congratulations to John Guzlowski, author of Echoes of Tattered Tongues, for being chosen as one of the winners of the 2024 Evergreen Wishes Anthology Competition sponsored by The League of Poets. The award is given “in recognition of your exceptional contribution to the celebration of Christmas through your literary work.” Guzlowski won for a prose piece about his family’s first Christmases in America.

November 22–24, 2024 – Boston, MA – Polish Perspectives Booth at 2024 NCSS Conference – Volunteers from the American Council for Polish Culture once again created and staffed a Polish Perspectives booth at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. As in past years, Aquila Polonica donated several copies of its titles for the booth, along with a selection of items for sale in our new online store and summaries of the Polish experience in World War II, which were given away to teachers. You can read a more complete report from ACPC online or in pdf.

October 20, 2024 – Washington, D.C. – Author John Guzlowski was the featured speaker at the Polish American Arts Association (PAAA) of Washington, D.C.’s fall membership meeting, which took place at the Cleveland Park Library in Washington, D.C. He spoke about his newly published work, Who I Am: Lives Told in Kitchen Polish, as well as his earlier collection of poetry published by Aquila Polonica Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded, which in 2017 won both the Gold Ben Franklin Award for Poetry and the Montaigne Medal for Most Thought-Provoking Book of the Year.

September 10, 2024 – John Guzlowski interviewed on Quintessential Listening Poetry Online Radio – Just posted on YouTube, a wide-ranging interview with John Guzlowski, author of Echoes of Tattered Tongues, and poet Michael Lee Johnson, looking at their writing and the role of poetry in our culture. Click here to listen!

August 30, 2024 – Premiering the New 303 Squadron Book Trailer! – We’re super excited about our new book trailer for 303 Squadron! Today is the anniversary of the Squadron’s first victory on August 30, 1940 — the day before it was declared operational — when during a training exercise Lieutenant Ludwik Paszkiewicz downed a Messerschmitt 110. We thought it would be an appropriate time to premiere our fabulous new trailer. Check it out!

August 15, 2024 – Crozet, VA – The Ice Road at The Lodge at Old Trail – Alice Faintich drew a crowd of 60 to 70 people to her multimedia presentation at the Lodge at Old Trail, about her father Stefan Waydenfeld’s book The Ice Road. In this award-winning book, Waydenfeld chronicled his teen-age experiences during World War II as one of about 1.5 million Polish civilians deported to hard labor in Siberia by the Soviet Union.

February 22, 2024 – Vox Populi publishes four Guzlowski poems – Four poems written by John Guzlowski about his mother and World War II were published today by the journal Vox Populi. The poems echo the themes elucidated in Guzlowski’s book Echoes of Tattered Tongues, published by Aquila Polonica. Read the article online or in pdf….

February 21, 2024 – Prof. Barbara Milewski Named Schechter Fellow at USHMM – Swarthmore Professor Barbara Milewski, co-winner of the 2023 Aquila Polonica Article Prize, has been named the Joyce and Arthur Schechter Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

The Fellowship provides her the opportunity to complete research on her manuscript exploring music making in the Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. Professor Milewski emphasized the importance of knowing Polish history. While researching Chopin, she explored how Poles used music to preserve a sense of national identity, even when no Polish state existed between 1795 and 1918. In much the same way, Polish political prisoners used music to maintain a sense of their identity in the concentration camps during WWII.  Read the article online or in pdf….

February 5, 2024 – Crozet, VA – The Ice Road at Glenbrook Book Club – Alice Faintich presented a program and led a discussion about her father’s book The Ice Road and the Soviet deportation of Polish civilians to Siberia during World War II at the well-attended Glenbrook Book Club in Crozet, VA.