- Summary
- " ... 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.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Kuper, Simon.
- Published
- New York : Nation Books, [2012]
©2012
- Locale
- Europe
Netherlands
Amsterdam
- Contents
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L. Orange Soldiers
2. A Sunday Before the War
3. A Friendly Salute: International Football in the 1930s
4. Warm Back of Eddy Hamel: an American in Amsterdam and Birkenau
5. 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. 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. Most Popular Team in Israel
14. Football Songs of the Netherlands
Disneytown and the Secret Monuments.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.
L. Orange Soldiers -- 2. A Sunday Before the War -- 3. A Friendly Salute: International Football in the 1930s -- 4. Warm Back of Eddy Hamel: an American in Amsterdam and Birkenau -- 5. 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. 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. Most Popular Team in Israel -- 14. Football Songs of the Netherlands -- Disneytown and the Secret Monuments.
