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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 Cover Image Book Book

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.

Russell, Jan Jarboe, 1951- (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781451693669
  • ISBN: 1451693664
  • ISBN: 9781451693676
  • ISBN: 1451693672
  • Physical Description: xix, 393 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2015.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-370) and index.

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Subject: Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Texas > Crystal City.
World War, 1939-1945 > Evacuation of civilians > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Forced repatriation.
World War, 1939-1945 > Children > United States > Biography.
Iserloh, Ingrid, 1930-
Utsusjogawa, Sumi, 1929-
Japanese Americans > History > 20th century.
German Americans > History > 20th century.
Crystal City (Tex.) > History > 20th century.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 6 of 6 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Columbia Gorge Community College Library.

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