ISBN: 9780752842745

Synopsis The Dutch club Ajax is the vehicle through which Simon Kuper recounts the stories of both survival and persecution of members of Amsterdam’s Jewish population – with almost 80 per cent of Amsterdam’s Jewish Corner wiped out in the War, the long-held notion that, by and large, half the Dutch population had some kind of link to the Resistance has, of late, come into question. Simon Kuper explores this issue and looks deeper into the role of football across Europe in the years both preceding and following World War 2.