2007-2009 News, Reviews & Events
Fourth Quarter 2009 – The Polish Review – The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt is "so riveting it is difficult to put down the book" says the Polish Review (vol. 54, no. 4, 2009). Read the review...
December 2009 – Cosmopolitan Review – Feature article about Aquila Polonica, titled “Publishing the Greatest Story Never Told.” Referring to Aquila Polonica's first book, The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt, Cosmopolitan Review asked: "Who published this beautiful book? Aquila Polonica? A new publishing house dedicated to the Polish World War II story? Who are they, and why this focus?" Read the article online or pdf...
December 2009 – Cosmopolitan Review – In its review of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt, Cosmopolitan Review calls it "a gripping, fast-paced narrative" that "takes you to the centre of the drama." Read the review online or pdf...
December 2009 – College and Research Libraries News – "Personal, moving, laced with grim humor, and accessible to a modern audience" says College and Research Libraries News in its review of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt. Read the review online or pdf...
Winter 2009 – Polish Heritage – Polish Heritage, published by the American Council for Polish Culture, reviews The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt. Read the review...
November 2009 – Polish American Journal – Feature article about Aquila Polonica, titled “By the Book.” Read the article...
November 2009 – Do Broni magazine – Feature article on Aquila Polonica and its first book, The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt. Read the article (Polish language only)...
October 27, 2009 – Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska – Wanda Urbanska, host of Simple Living TV, reviews The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt. Read the review...
September 1, 2009 – Aquila Polonica Press Release - “Aquila Polonica Publishing Debuts with The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt”—announcing Aquila Polonica's first book! Read the press release...
August 24, 2009 – Publishers Weekly – Publishers Weekly includes The Mermaid and the Messerschmittin its annual War & Military issue. Read the entire War & Military article online or the relevant excerpt pdf...
April 2009 – Book Review by Fontayne Holmes, City Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library (ret.) - the earliest reviewer of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt is retired Los Angeles City Librarian, Fontayne Holmes—who loved the book! She writes: "Rulka Langer’s story is utterly contemporary and compelling, and once I started the book, I could not put it down until I finished it....In Rulka’s compelling story, we walk in her footsteps and the past is present." Read the review...
March 10, 2009 – BBC Article by Stefan Mucha – Aquila Polonica co-founder Stefan Mucha writes an article titled "Warsaw at War...Memories of Poland in WW2" for the BBC Our Diverse Communities—he concludes: "My father survived but he was never free from the scars of these terrible years, and sixty years on neither are we, his children." Read the article online or pdf...
September 2007 – Sarmatian Review – Announcing the formation of Aquila Polonica Publishing: “New American Publishing House Interested in Polish Experience in the Second World War.” Read it online or pdf...
April 28, 2007 – Aquila Polonica Press Release - “Aquila Polonica Publishing Debuts at Awards Ceremony with Poland’s First Lady”: Aquila Polonica co-founder and president Terry Tegnazian is invited to make a presentation before Polish First Lady Maria Kaczynska at an event sposored by the Polish Consulate in Los Angeles, introducing Aquila Polonica. Read the press release...
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