The Botanist's Tracks

Beyond the Tracks, Book 3

De: Michael Reit

Narrado por: John Maddaloni

Felcia Hodaks's vital botanical skills are the only thing keeping her away from the gas chambers.

Against the backdrop of Auschwitz-Birkenau's ever-present brutality, Felcia tends to the plants needed for one of the Reich's most ambitious experiments—one that could tip the war in favor of the Nazis.

When Sabina Kupka discovers the horrifying nature of her father's job at a coal mine run by Nazis, she agrees to work with an increasingly defiant resistance. What starts small but significant soon propels her into a frontline role—dangerous enough to cost her her life if caught.

Soon, both women are engaged in a daring plan to arm the prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The Botanist's Tracks is the third installment in the Beyond the Tracks series and takes readers to the Nazi agricultural camp of Rajsko, a ten-minute ride from Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Based on actual events, The Botanist's Tracks is the first-ever book set primarily in Rajsko and shows the incredible ingenuity of prisoners in finding ways to rise against impossible odds.

©2024 Michael Reit (P)2024 Michael Reit

ZThe courage of those outside the camp to help prisoners, and also the prisoners themselves as they struggled to survive.

I appreciated the attempt to follow true happenings so hopefully there'll not be a repeat

great depiction

this story was a little harder to follow than the previous one but still excellent

Great Listen

Enjoyed everything about this book except that some of the descriptions were hard to listen to.

Great story

Loved this book. Great history lesson but also some fiction in it as well. Listened with my son in the car and it kept his interest as well.

Hooked on all his books

I absolutely love his reader and am working my way through all his books. As heartbreaking as the subject is REIT writes beautifully.

Well written and very believable

My third. Book this month written by this author. His books have brought the horrors of the Holocaust into clear focus unlike other books. Friendships form, people try to save each other from certain death. This section where the scientists live was luxury compared to what normal prisoners lived in.

friendship

Held my attention from beginning to end, have read 6 of his books and enjoyed them all.

Well written characters that you can’t help but love!

The author does a superb job painting a vivid picture of what it must have been like to live near Auschwitz and feel so powerless to help while having to stand witness to such atrocities. Excellent storytelling to keep the past alive.

I binge read this series.

As difficult as it is to read the cruelty and dehumanization from the Nazis in these camps, books and series like this are important for us to read to remind us of what humanity is capable of and to protect from allowing this to happen again. These books offer a vivid glimpse into the darkest time in modern European history. I hope this is not Michael’s final book with this series. I’d love to see how Sabina and her crew continue to work with the resistance.

That there may have been compassionate officers in the war

I felt like the story ended weird but it was very good! So unfortunate that it really happened