The train to Crystal City : FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II
2015, First Edition. New York : Scribner. 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. Item #226593
Price: €14.95