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008    121105t20122012nyua     b    001 0 eng d
020    9781568587233 |qpaperback
020    1568587236 |qpaperback
035    (OCoLC)ocn778420379
035    228391
040    LHM |beng |erda |cLHM
050 00 GV943.6.A3 |bK87 2012
100 1  Kuper, Simon.
245 00 Ajax, the Dutch, the war : |bthe strange tale of soccer during Europe's darkest hour / |cSimon Kuper.
264  1 New York : |bNation Books, |c[2012]
264  4  |c©2012
300    xii, 274 pages : |billustrations ; |c21 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.
505 00  |gL. |tOrange Soldiers -- |g2. |tA Sunday Before the War -- |g3. |tA Friendly Salute: International Football in the 1930s -- |g4. |tWarm Back of Eddy Hamel: an American in Amsterdam and Birkenau -- |g5. |tLost Memories of Meijer Stad -- |g6. |tSparta: A Football Club in Wartime -- |g7. |tBoom: The Rise of Football in the Occupied Netherlands -- |g8. |tStrange Lies: Ajax, World War II and P. G. Wodehouse -- |g9. |tCaptain of France, Collaborator in Gorcum: Soccer and the Annals of Resistance -- |g10. |tNetherlands Was Better Than the Rest -- |g11. |tSoldier Heroes: British and German Soccer in the War (and Long After) -- |g12. |tOf Bunkers and Cigars: The Holocaust and the Making of the Great Ajax -- |g13. |tMost Popular Team in Israel -- |g14. |tFootball Songs of the Netherlands -- |gDisneytown and the Secret Monuments.
520    " ... 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.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
610 20 Ajax (Soccer team) |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Soccer |zEurope |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Soccer and war |zEurope |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Jews |zNetherlands |zAmsterdam |xHistory |y20th century.
852 0   |bstacks |hGV943.6.A3 |iK87 2012