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A gripping historical novel of sex, love, and justice in the tinderbox of British Mandate Palestine, by the acclaimed author of A Palestine Affair In 1933, Ivor Castle, an Oxford-educated Jew, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel for the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff, a figure whose tactics to get Jews out of Hitler's Germany and into Palestine may have been controversial enough to get him killed. Ivor, an innocent to the politics of the case, falls into bed and deeply in love with Tsiona, a free-spirited painter who sketched the accused men in a Jerusalem cafe on the night of the murder and may be a key witness. As Ivor learns the hard way about the violence simmering just under the lid of British colonial rule, Wilson dazzles with his mastery of the sun-baked scenery and the subtleties of the warring agendas in Palestine. Ivor moves between the crime scene in Tel Aviv and the maze of Jerusalem, between the mounting mysteries around this notorious legal case and clandestine lovemaking in Tsiona's tiny studio in Safed. In the end, he must discover where his heart lies--whether he cares more for the law or the truth, whether he is an Englishman or a Jew, with whom and where he belongs.

The story of Jack and Bobby Charlton, and a family that characterised English football for decades

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Hungary, 1920s. A school emerges from Budapest that becomes one of the most influential in football history. But war follows, and many players and coaches leave, fleeing anti-Semitism.Italty, Argentina, Brazil, 1950s. Hungary's side are unbeatable.How could this happen? In the cities of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire in the years after World War One, football changed. Rising in popularity alongside the rise of a new middle class, these intellectuals brought an academic, mathematical rigor to the discussing not just what was, but what could be.This is the story of football flourishing in Hungary, when professional leagues were established and the game became universally loved across social classes and backgrounds. This is the story of the modern game establishing itself in the hearts of a society blighted by tragedy and famine, a culture that flourished in the shadow of rising fascism and the march toward war.This is the story of this vibrant, tragic era - and how it transformed the game as we know it.

Manchester, 2018: Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho led their teams out to face each other in the 175th Manchester derby. They are first and second in the Premier League, but today only one man can come out on top. It is merely the latest installment in a rivalry that has contested titles, traded insults and crossed a continent, but which can be traced back to a friendship that began almost 25 years ago. Barcelona, late-nineties: Johan Cruyff's 'Dream Team' is disintegrating and the revolutionary manager has departed, but what will come next will transform the future of football. Cruyff's style has changed the game, and given birth to a generation of thinkers: men like Ronald Koeman, Luis Enrique, Laurent Blanc, Frank de Boer, Louis van Gaal, and Cruyff's club captain Pep Guardiola and a young translator, José Mourinho. The Barcelona Legacy is a book in part about tactics, about how the theories that underpin the modern game were forged by Cruyff and his successors, but also about the people and personalities who gathered at the Camp Nou for what was effectively the greatest coaching seminar in history, about their friendships and rivalries and, in one case, an apocalyptic falling out that continues to shape the game today

The definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramid

Was haben Albert Camus, Vladimir Nabokov und Papst Johannes Paul II. gemeinsam? Sie alle standen in ihrer Jugend im Tor. Nach 'Revolutionen auf dem Rasen', seiner erfolgreichen Geschichte der Fußballtaktik, beschäftigt sich Jonathan Wilson jetzt mit der ganz besonderen Spezies der Torhüter: von den Anfängen, als es noch gar keinen festen Torhüter gab, bis zum mitspielenden Torwart von heute, wie er von Manuel Neuer verkörpert wird. Dabei erklärt er nationale Unterschiede, z. B. warum der Torhüter in Russland ein so viel höheres Ansehen genießt als in Brasilien. Und er fragt, was es mit dem Ruf des Torhüters als Einzelgänger und Exzentriker auf sich hat. Selbstverständlich werden auch die besten Torhüter aller Zeiten porträtiert, afrikanische Torhüterlegenden ebenso wie der große sowjetische Torhüter Lew Jaschin. Und auch die deutschen Stars der Zunft, etwa Sepp Maier und Oliver Kahn, kommen nicht zu kurz. Eine fesselnde (Kultur-)Geschichte des Torhüters voller spannender Fakten und unterhaltsamer Anekdoten.

Jonathan Wilson's modern classic on football tactics, now fully updated for its tenth-anniversary edition

The fascinating story of football in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Berlin Wall

In British-occupied Palestine after World War I, Mark Bloomberg, a beleaguered London painter, and Joyce, his American wife, witness the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew. Joyce, a non-Jew and ardent Zionist, is drawn into an affair with the British investigating officer, while Mark seeks solace in the exotic colors and contours of the Middle Eastern landscape. Each of the three has come to Palestine to escape grief, and yet—caught in the crosshairs of history—they will all be forced to confront the very issues they hoped to leave behind in this swift and sensuous novel of artful concealment and roiling passions.