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Train to Crystal City : FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Jan Jarboe Russell (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCengage GALE
ISBN-101410477614
ISBN-139781410477613
eBay Product ID (ePID)208593551
Product Key Features
Book TitleTrain to Crystal City : FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
Number of Pages667 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicMilitary / World War II, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
FeaturesLarge Type
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorJan Jarboe Russell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.7 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal940.53/177644370922
Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition
SynopsisThe dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families--many US citizens--were incarcerated. From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The only family internment camp during World War II, Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called "quiet passage." During the course of the war, hundreds of prisoners in Crystal City, including their American-born children, were exchanged for other more important Americans--diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, physicians, and missionaries--behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany. Focusing her story on two American-born teenage girls who were interned, author Jan Jarboe Russell uncovers the details of their years spent in the camp; the struggles of their fathers; their families' subsequent journeys to war-devastated Germany and Japan; and their years-long attempt to survive and return to the United States, transformed from incarcerated enemies to American loyalists. Their stories of day-to-day life at the camp, from the ten-foot high security fence to the armed guards, daily roll call, and censored mail, have never been told. Combining big-picture World War II history with a little-known event in American history that has long been kept quiet, "The Train to Crystal City" reveals the war-time hysteria against the Japanese and Germans in America, the secrets of FDR's tactics to rescue high-profile POWs in Germany and Japan, and how the definition of American citizenship changed under the pressure of war., From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children to a family internment camp in Texas. Crystal City was the center of a government program called "quiet passage," under which hundreds were exchanged for more important Americans held behind enemy lines. Jan Jarboe Russell details a little-known story of how the definition of American citizenshipchanged under the pressure of war.
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