Ajax, the Dutch, the War
The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour
By Simon Kuper
(Nation Books, Paperback, 9781568587233, 274pp.)
Publication Date: September 2012
Categories: Jewish - General, History, Soccer
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Description
Kuper uses soccer--particularly the experience of Ajax, a club long supported by Amsterdam's Jews--as a window on wartime Holland and Europe. Through interviews with Resistance fighters, survivors, wartime soccer players, and others, Kuper uncovers this history that has been ignored.
About the Author
Simon Kuper is one of the world’s leading writers on soccer. The winner of the William Hill prize for sports book of the year in England, Kuper writes a weekly column for the Financial Times.
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