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Lädt ... The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War IIvon Jan Jarboe Russell
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Other reviewers have laid out the story told by this book, so I will not duplicate their efforts. This is a worthwhile story to be told, and I found it very informative of events in history of which I knew very little. However, I found the writing to be somewhat dry and the book too long, and after a while I felt like I was slogging through it. I wanted to finish it, and I did, but it was somewhat of a chore. These types of books are right up my reading alley. These, military, and animal books are about the only non-fiction I read. I am not familiar with Crystal City. Yet I am not surprised as this was way before my time but also it seems that now a days the media does not really report on news but on celebrities. We as a society have forgotten our history which is very important. The reason that I rated this book so low is not because of the people but because of the way this book was written. The first four chapters I could not remember a word of what was written in them. Also I felt that the author repeated herself a lot with events. The writing came off dry and thus kind of a chore to read. The only interesting thing was the people and reading about what they had to endure. Not to take anything away from the events but I found myself after a bit skimming the pages rather then reading them, so I put it down.
Mr. O’Rourke wrote of watching “typical American boys and girls develop deep feelings of betrayal by their government.” After all, in a situation rife with absurdities, they were being taught the Bill of Rights in schools at Crystal City, where those rights had been taken away from them. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige Auswahlen
"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."-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I was also not aware that the US kidnapped Japanese and German citizens living in South American countries and brought them to the US to use as exchange pawns. Utterly despicable!
I highly suggest reading this book. ( )