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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.
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- ISBN: 9781451693669 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781451693676 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xix, 393 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. Mel.org. |
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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 is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II , winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Prize for Best Book of Nonfiction. She is a Neiman Fellow, a contributing editor for Texas Monthly , and has written for the San Antonio Express-News , The New York Times , Slate , and other magazines. She also compiled and edited They Lived to Tell the Tale . She lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Dr. Lewis F. Russell, Jr.
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