The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction) - Hardcover

"Jan Jarboe Russell has exposed a corner of American history that few knew existed, one that is at once bitter and transformative. The glory of this book is in the many human details so skillfully sketched, which add another chapter to the unending tally of war."--Lawrence Wright, author of Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

""The Train to Crystal City" is a story ofheartbreaking dislocation, of lives smashed and ruined, and of almostunbelievable human endurance, resilience, and determination. Jan Jarboe Russellhas written a powerful book that will leave you shaking your head in disbelief."-- S.C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Rebel Yell and Empire of the Summer Moon"

Exposes a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, from which hundreds of prisoners were exchanged for other Americans behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany.