THE TRAIN TO CRYSTAL CITY: FDR'S SECRET PRISONER EXCHANGE PROGRAM AND AMERICA'S ONLY FAMILY INTERNMENT CAMP DURING WWII BY JAN JARBOE RUSSELL

THE TRAIN TO CRYSTAL CITY: FDR'S SECRET PRISONER EXCHANGE PROGRAM AND AMERICA'S ONLY FAMILY INTERNMENT CAMP DURING WWII BY JAN JARBOE RUSSELL.  I have a love/hate relationship with history/non fiction.  I have LOVED history since I was in grade school.  I even won a prize in school for my "reporting" of the Civil War.  When I read this book it took me a couple of days to figure out how I was going to review it.  I HATE non fiction like this because it boggles my mind that this stuff is REAL not some imaginary story from an author.

 The US actually took thousands of American citizens, men women and children into prison camps just because the parents were born in Japan, Germany or Italy.  The children(who are American citizens) lived behind the barbed wire,were guarded by American soldiers with guns at the ready & some were forced to go back to where their parents were born and live in a world they knew NOTHING about.   The book focuses on several of the children of German & Japanese parents & how their lives,their world was destroyed by Pearl Harbor .  These children did nothing to warrant their punishment nor did their parents except that they were  German, Japanese & Italian

We have all heard of what the Germans did to the Jews during WWII & I hope we never forget it.  But until I read this book I knew there were internment camps here but I never really knew the truth INSIDE the internment  camps.  A must read for people who have the same love/hate relationship of history as I do