The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II - Softcover

"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

"Russell movingly focuses on human stories coming out of one camp that held both Japanese and Germans, outside Crystal City, Tex....Poignant."--New York Times Book Review

"Mind-boggling...The Train to Crystal City combines accounts of terrible sorrow and destruction with great perseverance...Readers [will] wish these stories weren't true."--The New York Times

"Americans--and particularly Texans--should read Jan Jarboe Russell's The Train to Crystal City... Ultimately, The Train to Crystal City is about identity, allegiance and home, and the difficulty of determining the loyalties that lie in individual human hearts."--Texas Observer

"Poignant, even shocking...a valuable look at a dark stain on America's Second World War."--Newsday

"In this quietly moving book, Jan Jarboe Russell traces the history of one unusual camp that housed detainees from Japan, Germany, and Italy, along with their families, many of whom were American-born."--Boston Globe

"There are obvious parallels between Crystal City and today's Guantanamo Bay detention facility and between the anti-immigrant sentiment then and now, but Russell wisely resists the urge to connect the dots. Her story is harrowing enough on its own."--Chicago Tribune

"A must-read for those interested not just in history, but in human nature....The Train to Crystal City is compelling, thought-provoking and impossible to put down."--Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"Engrossing...Russell documents in chilling details a shocking story of national betrayal."--Kirkus

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.