The train to Crystal City
Subtitle: FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II
By: Jan Jarboe Russell
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9781451693669
Subjects: Concentration camps; German Americans; World War, 1939-1945; Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.); Evacuation of civilians; Forced repatriation; Japanese Americans; Children; Biography; History
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-370) and index.
Table of contents: title: Without trial. New enemies ; Eleanor vs. Franklin ; Strangers in a small Texas town; title: 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; title: The equation of exchange. Trade bait ; The false passports ; Under fire ; Into Algeria ; The all-American camp ; Shipped to Japan ; Harrison's second act; title: The road home. After the war ; Beyond the barbed wire ; The train from Crystal City.