| Andrés Martinez
So much of sport fandom is about nostalgia, but nostalgia and sport’s collective memory can be tricky when traced back to the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. Simon Kuper’s 2003 book Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe During the Second World War explores the Dutch experience of Nazi occupation (and the subsequent storytelling about it) through the lens of Holland’s most iconic sporting institutions.