An amazing look at this sad part of our history. I was aware of the fact the US interred Japanese American citizens, but I was not aware that we also did the same to German Americans. I knew we had German POW camps here in the states, but was not aware of how many Germans were put into camps and alongside Japanese Americans were "exchanged" with Germany and Japan for other Americans.

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. ( )

I thought I knew about the US internment camps during WWII, but I didn't know about this. It's a pity the writing is so pedestrian, but nonetheless, read this!

An eye opening look at a family internment camp in Texas during World War II and the program to exchange immigrants and their US born children for POWs. ( )

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. ( )