(SIGNED) 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

ISBN 10: 1451693664 / ISBN 13: 9781451693669

Edité par Scribner, 2015

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Inventory ID 657935. Hardcover Cloth 393 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition Second printing 2015 with corresponding number line. Attractive tan boards with black buckram spine and gilt embossing spotlights this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Bumped corners. An unclipped dust jacket is smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Inscribed by author on inside page.Want to protect the book's dust jacket with a mylar cover? Add Biblio or ABEBooks listing 657791 or eBay item 176708421996 to your purchase.The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II; where thousands of families, many US citizens, were incarcerated.From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of 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 American 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.

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• Titre: (SIGNED) The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1451693664
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781451693669
• Reliure: Hard
• Édition: 22.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, a little known chapter of Japanese American internment and German American internment: “A must-read….The Train to Crystal City is compelling, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down” (The Minnesota Star Tribune).

During World War II, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, as World War II civilian prisoners. The trains carried Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and their American-born children, families labeled “enemy aliens” and used as bargaining chips in high-stakes diplomacy. The only family internment camp during the war, Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called “quiet passage.” Hundreds of prisoners in Crystal City were exchanged for other more ostensibly important Americans—diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, and missionaries—behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany.

“In this quietly moving book” (The Boston Globe), Jan Jarboe Russell focuses on two American-born teenage girls, uncovering 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, trace an immigrant experience shared by many immigrant families and have never been told.

Combining big-picture World War II history with a little-known event in American history, The Train to Crystal City reveals the wartime hysteria against the Japanese and Germans in America, the secrets of FDR’s tactics to rescue high-profile POWs in Germany and Japan, and above all, “is about identity, allegiance, and home, and the difficulty of determining the loyalties that lie in individual human hearts” (Texas Observer).

À propos de l'auteur

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.