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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 Large Print Book Large Print 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: 9781410477613
  • ISBN: 1410477614
  • Physical Description: 657 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2015]

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"Thorndike Press large print nonfiction"--Title page verso.
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From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered more than 10,000 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.
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.
Genre: Large type books.

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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
The Train to Crystal City : FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
by Russell, Jan Jarboe
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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

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
Prefacep. 15
Part 1Without Trialp. 25
1    New Enemiesp. 27
2    Eleanor vs. Franklinp. 55
3    Strangers in a Small Texas Townp. 83
Part 2Destination: Crystal Cityp. 125
4    Internment Without Trialp. 127
5    A Family Reunionp. 165
6    The Hot Summer of '43p. 181
7    "Be Patient"p. 211
8    To Be or Not to Be an Americanp. 228
9    Yes-Yes, No-Nop. 259
10    A Test of Faithp. 283
11    The Birds Are Cryingp. 311
Part 3The Equation of Exchangep. 331
12    Trade Baitp. 333
13    The False Passportsp. 356
14    Under Firep. 383
15    Into Algeriap. 399
16    The All-American Campp. 416
17    Shipped to Japanp. 442
18    Harrison's Second Actp. 467
Part 4The Road Homep. 487
19    After the Warp. 489
20    Beyond the Barbed Wirep. 517
21    The Train from Crystal Cityp. 546
Acknowledgmentsp. 579
Sources and Notesp. 583
Bibliographyp. 639
Photograph Creditsp. 653

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