PDF Ladies of the Manor: How Wives Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society Over a Century Ago by Pamela Horn in History

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The New York Times bestselling dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II: “A must-read….The Train to Crystal City is compelling; thought-provoking; and impossible to put down” (Star-Tribune; Minneapolis).During World War II; trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City; Texas. The trains carried Japanese; German; and Italian immigrants and their American-born children. The only family internment camp during the war; Crystal City was the center of a government prisoner exchange program called “quiet passage.” Hundreds of prisoners in Crystal City were exchanged for other more ostensibly important Americans—diplomats; businessmen; soldiers; and missionaries—behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany. “In this quietly moving book” (The Boston Globe); Jan Jarboe Russell focuses on two American-born teenage girls; uncovering 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. Combining big-picture World War II history with a little-known event in American history; 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 above all; “is about identity; allegiance; and home; and the difficulty of determining the loyalties that lie in individual human hearts” (Texas Observer).