Author: RUSSELL, JAN JARBOE
Title: The train to Crystal City : FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II
Description: New York : Scribner 2015. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 393 pages; Description: xix. 393 pages. 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm. 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.' Subjects; 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.Weight in Kg appr.:

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