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The Botanist's Tracks

Beyond the Tracks, Book 3

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The Botanist's Tracks

By: Michael Reit
Narrated by: John Maddaloni
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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
20th Century Historical Fiction Jewish World Literature

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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.

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

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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.

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great depiction

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

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

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Great incorporation of truth and fiction

Great incorporation of history and fiction. Gives a good sense of what was going on in past.

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The Reader's British Accent

I felt that the British accent of the reader for the characters seemed a bit off since the main characters were from Berlin, Germany. There was no inference to them being from Great Britain.

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The detail of the research camp and its overlap with Auschwitz Birkenau was fascinating.

I’ve read many Michael REIT books and enjoy them all thoroughly. Congrats on the readers chosen! They can make or break a book.

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History made alive

I saw these books and have had friends and others that survived but there 3 books took the events and gave them who they were like not just faces and shoes and that is what today we need to make human connection and as Such good research

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Love the Tracks continuation

As with all of Michael Reit’s books, he tells a compelling story which captures brutality and humanity

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