- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Orion, London (6. November 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0752842749
- ISBN-13: 978-0752842745
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 12,9 x 1,9 x 19,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 451.451 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In Ajax, the Dutch, the War, Simon Kuper, broadsheet journalist and author of the bestselling Football Against the Enemy, turns his attention to the Dutch club Ajax of Amsterdam, and the hidden history of the Nazi occupation of Holland in WW2.
At one level the book can be seen as an investigation into the mystery of how and why Ajax, like one or two other of Europe's major club sides, are considered to be a Jewish team--their supporters, of no discernable faith, still wave an Israel flag at matches; in return some rival fans revel in anti-Semitic language and gestures. Kuper tries to locate the roots of this alignment through interviews with the ever-decreasing number of living witnesses, players, club officials and supporters, who experienced the period from the early 1930s to the end of the Second World War in 1945--a time in which the soul of Amsterdam, "the city of Jews and bicycles", was indelibly stained by the horrors of occupation, ghettoisation and the Holocaust.
What he finds is the story of a city, its people and its football team, that challenges the semi-truths and misconceptions about civilian lives in wartime that most of us hold--including how and why the mass obsession with football thrived in the unlikeliest circumstances. It's a personal history too. Kuper's parents, Jews from South Africa, moved to the Netherlands more than 30 years after the war had ended, but were confronted by its legacy at every turn.
By weaving himself, his family and the contemporary voices of ordinary people into what is essentially a book on a facet of 20th Century Northern European history, Kuper pulls off the remarkable feat of creating a readable, entertaining work out of potentially difficult material. Free of the occasionally pompous, cod-academic tone that soured parts of Football Against the Enemy, the book breathes a little more easily, is more involving, funnier, and more moving than its predecessor--and as such, is warmly recommended. --Alex Hankin -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Paperback edition of this bestselling study of Amsterdam's Jewish community, its prominent place in WWII history and the constant that is Ajax, the city's beloved football club. From the award-winning author of }Football Against the Enemy{, which won the 1994 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. 8pp illus.
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A myth-buster!
10. Januar 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
Simon Kuper maintains his easy-flowing style and investigative journalism concerning his topic. I was already suspicious about the 'Dutch tolerance', and this book can be read to shatter all there is...
However, this is not really a book on football or Ajax. Yes, Mr. Kuper is the best to connect football and politics but this time there is more politics than soccer. And it seems that the whole book is organized to shatter a myth in which Ajax is a small part... Anyway, I did not feel any regret to read the book, i am just warning you about what to expect...
However, this is not really a book on football or Ajax. Yes, Mr. Kuper is the best to connect football and politics but this time there is more politics than soccer. And it seems that the whole book is organized to shatter a myth in which Ajax is a small part... Anyway, I did not feel any regret to read the book, i am just warning you about what to expect...
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A really great book
5. April 2008
Format:Taschenbuch
From the title, I thought this would be a simplistic story of a European football team, and would be mildly interesting. I found it to be one of the best histories I have ever come across. Not only are the stories spellbinding, but I have never come across any other book which has covered the material, and I have read hundreds of books on WW II. To top it off, I had even previously heard (and believed) all of the stories which the author shows to be myths. I want more !!!!
Dutch complacency exposed
25. Februar 2012
Format:Taschenbuch
In his previous work, such as the magisterial "Football against the Enemy", and in his newspaper columns collected in "The Football Men", the FT journalist Simon Kuper demonstrates both his deep knowledge of the game and an intimate familiarity with the British, Dutch and German national characters that must be unparalleled among sports writers.
I have read many books about football and many about the war. This is one of the best on either subject. "Football Against the Enemy", along with Nick Hornby's "Fever Pitch", founded a genre - that devoted to the consumption of sport, rather than the sport itself. Having thus established himself as a "sporting anthropologist", Kuper is uniquely equipped to explore tyranny from the point of view of sport.
As Kuper himself points out in the first chapter of "Ajax, the Dutch, the War", the myth that the Netherlands had heroically done all it could to resist German barbarism has long since been discarded by the Dutch, though interestingly it lives on in Israel. He rejects however the idea that there was nothing that could have been done in the face of such a brutal occupaton by comparison with Denmark and Norway. The stark fact is that the Netherlands lost three quarters of its Jews, largely rounded up by Dutch officials and policemen, while the occupied Scandinavians and even Germany's Italian and Bulgarian allies refused to heed German demands for mass deportation. In his condemnation of Amsterdam's present complacent attitude to the recent past Kuper's tone, especially in the final chapter, betrays a bitterness spared towards the rival city of Rotterdam.
Other chapters give interesting insights, such as the one devoted to THAT salute, the Hitlergruß given by the England players to the Berlin crowd before an international match played a year before war broke out. Our reactions to the infamous photograph are of course determined by our knowledge of what happened in the years that followed, but at the time it did not provoke much reaction, and was seen simply as good ambassadorship. A lesson learned by reading this chapter is that the Nazis were at the time far from obsessed with winning, were in awe of England's renown for good sporting behaviour and wanted to acquire the same reputation.
This is a book about football and it's a book about the war. You need to be interested in both, but if you are it's an engrossing read.
I have read many books about football and many about the war. This is one of the best on either subject. "Football Against the Enemy", along with Nick Hornby's "Fever Pitch", founded a genre - that devoted to the consumption of sport, rather than the sport itself. Having thus established himself as a "sporting anthropologist", Kuper is uniquely equipped to explore tyranny from the point of view of sport.
As Kuper himself points out in the first chapter of "Ajax, the Dutch, the War", the myth that the Netherlands had heroically done all it could to resist German barbarism has long since been discarded by the Dutch, though interestingly it lives on in Israel. He rejects however the idea that there was nothing that could have been done in the face of such a brutal occupaton by comparison with Denmark and Norway. The stark fact is that the Netherlands lost three quarters of its Jews, largely rounded up by Dutch officials and policemen, while the occupied Scandinavians and even Germany's Italian and Bulgarian allies refused to heed German demands for mass deportation. In his condemnation of Amsterdam's present complacent attitude to the recent past Kuper's tone, especially in the final chapter, betrays a bitterness spared towards the rival city of Rotterdam.
Other chapters give interesting insights, such as the one devoted to THAT salute, the Hitlergruß given by the England players to the Berlin crowd before an international match played a year before war broke out. Our reactions to the infamous photograph are of course determined by our knowledge of what happened in the years that followed, but at the time it did not provoke much reaction, and was seen simply as good ambassadorship. A lesson learned by reading this chapter is that the Nazis were at the time far from obsessed with winning, were in awe of England's renown for good sporting behaviour and wanted to acquire the same reputation.
This is a book about football and it's a book about the war. You need to be interested in both, but if you are it's an engrossing read.
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