{"product_id":"the-train-to-crystal-city-fdrs-secret-prisoner-exchange-program-and-americas-only-family-internment-camp-during-world-war-ii","title":"The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 Americans—diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, physicians, and missionaries—behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining 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., ISBN13: 9781451693669 ISBN10: 1451693664 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46112107987107,"sku":"TN_STR_H00006N2","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/71ib_YBNy8L.jpg?v=1754645685","url":"https:\/\/usedbookdepot.com\/products\/the-train-to-crystal-city-fdrs-secret-prisoner-exchange-program-and-americas-only-family-internment-camp-during-world-war-ii","provider":"Used Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}