Book Report: The Train To Crystal City By Jan Jarboe Russell
The author Jan Russell through her book “The Train To Crystal City” explains how people were detained in crystal city camp and exchanged for allegedly important persons that were held by Germany and other US enemies during world war II. Russell wrote this book to inform people about the detention facility whose existence was known to very few people. Being a long-term journalist and a freelance writer Jan Russell has written several fictional and nonfictional books and articles. Writing the historical book wasn’t easy but her journalist skills came in handy and helped her unearth what transpired in the detention camps.
Jan Russell was born in Texas and grew up in small towns in the piney woods east of Texas. The detention camp she writes about in the “The Train To Crystal City” was located in Texas and her Texas origin might have contributed to her knowledge about the camp. Her mother was an elementary school teacher while her father was a minister of music in several Southern Baptist churches. At the age of 16, Jan landed a part-time job a local weekly newspaper and this kick-started her journalism career. Jan owns a degree in journalism from the University of Texas. She worked with several media houses as a …show more content…
There is a certain similarity of the crystal city camp with today’s Guantanamo camp and the lessons learned from the historical camp can be valuable in future. People from Texas or the entire American society should read this book as it reveals much about their identity, allegiance, home, history and the difficulties of determining certain loyalties that lie in human hearts. This is a good read that focuses on human stories, points out our human weaknesses and lays insights of how our societies have developed till
The author Jan Russell through her book “The Train To Crystal City” explains how people were detained in crystal city camp and exchanged for allegedly important persons that were held by Germany and other US enemies during world war II. Russell wrote this book to inform people about the detention facility whose existence was known to very few people. Being a long-term journalist and a freelance writer Jan Russell has written several fictional and nonfictional books and articles. Writing the historical book wasn’t easy but her journalist skills came in handy and helped her unearth what transpired in the detention camps.
Jan Russell was born in Texas and grew up in small towns in the piney woods east of Texas. The detention camp she writes about in the “The Train To Crystal City” was located in Texas and her Texas origin might have contributed to her knowledge about the camp. Her mother was an elementary school teacher while her father was a minister of music in several Southern Baptist churches. At the age of 16, Jan landed a part-time job a local weekly newspaper and this kick-started her journalism career. Jan owns a degree in journalism from the University of Texas. She worked with several media houses as a …show more content…
There is a certain similarity of the crystal city camp with today’s Guantanamo camp and the lessons learned from the historical camp can be valuable in future. People from Texas or the entire American society should read this book as it reveals much about their identity, allegiance, home, history and the difficulties of determining certain loyalties that lie in human hearts. This is a good read that focuses on human stories, points out our human weaknesses and lays insights of how our societies have developed till