Ajax, the Dutch, the War
ISBN-13:
9781568587233
ISBN-10:
1568587236
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Simon Kuper
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Bold Type Books
Format:
Paperback
296 pages
Category:
World War II
,
Military History
,
Jewish
,
World History
,
History of Sports
,
Sports Miscellaneous
,
Soccer
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ISBN-13:
9781568587233
ISBN-10:
1568587236
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Simon Kuper
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Bold Type Books
Format:
Paperback
296 pages
Category:
World War II
,
Military History
,
Jewish
,
World History
,
History of Sports
,
Sports Miscellaneous
,
Soccer
Summary
Ajax, the Dutch, the War (ISBN-13: 9781568587233 and ISBN-10: 1568587236), written by authors
Simon Kuper, was published by Bold Type Books in 2012.
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Description
When most people think about the Netherlands, images of tulips and peaceful pot smoking residents spring to mind. Bring up soccer, and most will think of Johan Cruyuff, the Dutch player thought to rival Pele in preternatural skill, and Ajax, one of the most influential soccer clubs in the world whose academy system for young athletes has been replicated around the globe (and most notably by Barcelona and the 2010 world champions, Spain).
But as international bestselling author Simon Kuper writes in Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Soccer in Europe During the Second World War, the story of soccer in Holland cannot be understood without investigating what really occurred in this country during WWII. For decades, the Dutch have enjoyed the reputation of having a good war.” The myth is even resonant in Israel where Ajax is celebrated. The fact is, the Jews suffered shocking persecution at the hands of Dutch collaborators. Holland had the second largest Nazi movement in Europe outside Germany, and in no other country except Poland was so high a percentage of Jews deported.
Kuper challenges Holland's historical amnesia and uses soccerparticularly the experience of Ajax, a club long supported by Amsterdam's Jewsas a window on wartime Holland and Europe. Through interviews with Resistance fighters, survivors, wartime soccer players and more, Kuper uncovers this history that has been ignored, and also finds out why the Holocaust had a profound effect on soccer in the country.
Ajax produced Cruyuff but was also built by members of the Dutch resistance and Holocaust survivors. It became a surrogate family for many who survived the war and its method for producing unparalleled talent became the envy of clubs around the world. In this passionate, haunting and moving work of forensic reporting, Kuper tells the breathtaking story of how Dutch Jews survived the unspeakable and came to play a strong role in the rise of the most exciting and revolutionary style of soccer Total Football” the world had ever seen.
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