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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.

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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.
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 > United States > History > 20th century.
Crystal City (Tex.) > History > 20th century.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Main 940.531773 R914t (Text) 31307021692589 Non Fiction Available -

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.

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