Bohdan Arct

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Bohdan Arct (top center, 1943)

Bohdan Arct (born May 27, 1914 in Warsaw ; † May 11, 1973 in Siedlce ; read: doctor ) was a Polish author and fighter pilot .

Life

Bohdan was born in Warsaw in 1914 to the publisher Zygmunt Arct and the children's book author Maria Buyno-Arctowa . After graduating from high school in 1933, he completed the one-year military service in the reserve school of the Polish Air Strike Forces in Dęblin . In the following years he continued to operate in aviation and was promoted to officer in 1936 . From 1934 to 1935 he completed an internship at the M. Arct publishing house in Warsaw and then studied graphic design from 1935 to 1939 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw .

He fought in the Polish army as a pilot until the surrender of Poland at the beginning of the Second World War . He then fled to France via Romania and Syria . There he served as a flight instructor in Blida near Algiers until France also surrendered. He then went to Great Britain and was trained as a fighter pilot in Heston in early 1941. He flew missions in North Africa and England from March to May 1943 . Promoted to major in the Royal Air Force , he was shot down over Holland in 1944 and interned as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft I in Barth .

After his release from captivity in 1945, he went back to England. From there he moved with his English wife Beryl and daughter to Breslau in 1947 and to Gołków near Warsaw in 1948 . In 1952 he moved to Dobrzanów near Siedlce. Until 1956, like many returnees from the Allied armed forces in the Eastern Bloc , he suffered from repression by the new (Moscow-controlled) Polish government.

Between 1944 and 1973 he wrote forty-four books with a total circulation of four million copies. Bohdan Arct died in 1973 at the age of 58.

His most important work is probably Kamikaze - Boski Wiatr , ( Eng . Kamikaze - Divine Wind ). The German translations have different subtitles, e.g. B. “From the diary of a Kamikaze”, “Diary of a Kamikaze” or “A death aviator kept a diary”.

Publications

  • W pogoni za Luftwaffe. Polscy mysliwcy w pustyni Tunisu , 1946
  • Messerschmitty w słońcu , 1947
  • Zwichnięte skrzydła , 1948
  • Gdy zamilkły silniki. Powieść lotnicza , 1949
  • Ekipa pokoju , 1950
  • Dla dobra człowieka , 1952
  • Lot o świcie , 1952
  • Załoga młodych , 1953
  • Ludzie powietrza , 1954
  • Skradziony człowiek , 1954
  • Wielki dzień dywizjonu 303 , 1956
  • Niebo w ogniu , 1957
  • W pogoni za V-1 , 1957
  • Bimber , 1958
  • Cyrk Skalskiego , 1958
  • "Lev pustyni" w potrzasku , 1958
  • Odyssea Hansa Schmidta , 1958
  • W podniebnej chwale , 1958
  • Samoloty świata , 1959
  • Pomoc musi nadjeść , 1960
  • Rycerze biało-czerwonej szachownicy , 1960
  • Kamikadze - boski wiatr , 1961
    • Kamikadze. A fatal aviator kept a diary , translated by Kurt Kelm , 1966
  • Nóż i scalpel , 1961
  • Alarm w St. Omer. Opowieści lotnicze , 1962
  • Podniebne asy , 1962
  • Bohaterowie nieba , 1963
  • Ucieczki , 1963
  • Cena życia , 1964
  • Szturmowcy Warszawy , 1964
  • Na progu kosmosu , 1965
  • Skrzydła nad Warszawą , 1965
  • Trzecie pokolenie , 1965
  • Poczet wielkich lotników , 1966
  • Polacy w bitwie o Anglię. 1940 , 1967
  • Śladem samolotu , 1969
  • Polskie skrzydła na Zachodzie; Po wrześniowej katastrofie; Bitwa o Wielką Brytanię; Ofensywa powietrzna i zwycięctwo , 1970
  • Obce niebo , 1971
  • Lotnicy bez skrzydeł. Polski lotniczy personel naziemny 1939–1945 , 1972
  • Polacy w walce z bronią "V" , 1972
  • Pomnik polskich lotników w Northolt , 1972
  • Alferro łączy kontynenty , 1973
  • Polacy w walkach na Czarnym Lądzie , 1974
  • Lot bez lądowania , 1975
  • Trzysta pierwszy nad celem , 1975

literature

  • Alicja Szałgan: Bohdan Arct . In: Współcześni polscy pisarze i badacze literatury . Tom pierwszy: A – B. Wydawnictwo Szkolne i Pedagogiczne Spółka Akcyjna, Warsaw 1994, ISBN 83-02-05445-3 , p. 54-56 .
  • Alicja Szałgan: Bohdan Arct . In: Współcześni polscy pisarze i badacze literatury . Tom dziesiąty: Ż i uzupełnienia do tomów 1–9. Fundacja Akademia Humanistyczna, Warsaw 2007, ISBN 978-83-8934894-4 , p. 109 .

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personal data
SURNAME Arct, Bohdan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish author and fighter pilot
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1973
Place of death Siedlce