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The train to Crystal City : FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II / Jan Jarboe Russell.
Van Pelt Library D805.5.C79 R87 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, Jan Jarboe, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.)--Biography.
- Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.).
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Texas--Crystal City.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Forced repatriation.
- Refoulement.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--United States--Biography.
- Iserloh, Ingrid, 1930-.
- Iserloh, Ingrid.
- Utsusjogawa, Sumi, 1929-.
- Utsusjogawa, Sumi.
- Japanese Americans--History--20th century.
- Japanese Americans.
- German Americans--History--20th century.
- German Americans.
- History.
- Crystal City (Tex.)--History--20th century.
- Crystal City (Tex.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 393 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Scribner, 2015.
- Summary:
- Focusing on a little-known event in American history that has long been kept quiet, a dramatic account exposes a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II where hundreds of prisoners were exchanged for other Americans behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany. --Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Without trial. New enemies ; Eleanor vs. Franklin ; Strangers in a small Texas town
- Destination: Crystal City. Internment without trial ; A family renunion ; The hot summer of '43 ; "Be patient" ; To be or not to be an American ; Yes-yes, no-no ; A test of faith ; The birds are crying
- The equation of exchange. Trade bait ; The false passports ; Under fire ; Into Algeria ; The all-American camp ; Shipped to Japan ; Harrison's second act
- The road home. After the war ; Beyond the barbed wire ; The train from Crystal City.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-370) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781451693669
- 1451693664
- 9781451693676
- 1451693672
- OCLC:
- 898205999
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