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the strange tale of soccer during Europe's darkest hour

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An edition of Ajax, the Dutch, the war (2011)

Ajax, the Dutch, the war

the strange tale of soccer during Europe's darkest hour

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" ... explores the myths of Holland's "Good War" -- the brave nation that hid Anne Frank from the Nazis -- by using the story of soccer in Holland and the Amsterdam club Ajax to puncture the tales that post-war Holland lives by. Through interviews with Resistance fighters, survivors, wartime soccer players and more, Kuper uncovers a history that has been largely ignored. Ranging far beyond the Netherlands and examining the stories of soccer and war in England, German and France, Kuper writes an alternative history of Europe at its darkest hour. He helps change the way we understand ordinary people's experience of the war in Europe." -- Back cover.

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Nation Books
Language
English
Pages
274

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Subjects

Ajax (Soccer team), Soccer, Jews, Soccer and war, History, Soccer, history, Jews, netherlands, Jews, history, 1789-, Sports, social aspects, Netherlands, history, german occupation, 1940-1945, Europe, history, 20th century, Historyajax (soccer team), Soccer--history, Soccer--europe--history--20th century, Soccer and war--history, Soccer and war--europe--history--20th century, Jews--history, Jews--netherlands--amsterdam--history--20th century, Gv943.6.a3 k87 2012, 796.334/09492

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Europe, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Times

20th century

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Ajax, the Dutch, the war: the strange tale of soccer during Europe's darkest hour
2012, Nation Books
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Ajax, the Dutch, the War
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Table of Contents

L.
Orange Soldiers -- -- 2.
A Sunday Before the War -- -- 3.
A Friendly Salute: International Football in the 1930s -- -- 4.
The Warm Back of Eddy Hamel: an American in Amsterdam and Birkenau -- -- 5.
The Lost Memories of Meijer Stad -- -- 6.
Sparta: A Football Club in Wartime -- -- 7.
Boom: The Rise of Football in the Occupied Netherlands -- -- 8.
Strange Lies: Ajax, World War II and P. G. Wodehouse -- -- 9.
Captain of France, Collaborator in Gorcum: Soccer and the Annals of Resistance -- -- 10.
The Netherlands Was Better Than the Rest -- -- 11.
Soldier Heroes: British and German Soccer in the War (and Long After) -- -- 12.
Of Bunkers and Cigars: The Holocaust and the Making of the Great Ajax -- -- 13.
The Most Popular Team in Israel -- -- 14.
Football Songs of the Netherlands ---- Disneytown and the Secret Monuments.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-264) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
796.334/09492
Library of Congress
GV943.6.A3 K87 2012, GV943.6.A3K87 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 274 p., [8] p. of plates
Number of pages
274

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Open Library
OL27138682M
Internet Archive
ajaxdutchwarstra0000kupe
ISBN 10
1568587236
ISBN 13
9781568587233
OCLC/WorldCat
1001878134, 778420379

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