The train to Crystal City [text (large print)] : FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II / by Jan Jarboe Russell.

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Title:

ISBN:

9781410477613

Personal Author:

Russell, Jan Jarboe, 1951-

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publication Information:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2015]

Physical Description:

657 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

General Note:

"Thorndike Press large print nonfiction"--Title page verso.

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. --Publisher's description.

Personal Subject:

Iserloh, Ingrid, 1930-

Utsusjogawa, Sumi, 1929-

Corporate Subject:

Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) -- Biography

Geographic Term:

Crystal City (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps--United States.

Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

German Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation