Description
Through the history of Amsterdam’s Ajax football club, this passionate and haunting work reexamines the Netherlands during the Second World War. It explores the lives of players, supporters, and Jewish communities, revealing the complex realities of survival, collaboration, resistance, and remembrance behind the country’s accepted wartime narratives. Drawing on painstaking research and vivid storytelling, the book connects the experiences of Dutch Jews with the later rise of Ajax, illuminating how football became entangled with identity, memory, and national history. The result is a moving and provocative account of a club—and a society—shaped by the enduring legacy of war.
Available Editions
paperback
PublicAffairs
Published Jan 1, 2012
298 pages
ISBN: 9781568587240
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Details
First Published
2011
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Ajax, the Dutch, the War by Simon Kuper.