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  • Immigration, Identity, Islam
  • By: Douglas Murray
  • Narrated by: Robert Davies
  • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (553 ratings)

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The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end.

This is not just an analysis of demographic and political realities; it is also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes accounts based on travels across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who pretend they want them to the places which cannot accept them.

Murray takes a step back at each stage and looks at the bigger and deeper issues which lie behind a continent's possible demise, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks to the steady erosion of our freedoms. The audiobook addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation, and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, Lampedusa, and Greece to uncover the malaise at the very heart of the European culture and to hear the stories of those who have arrived in Europe from far away.

This sharp and incisive audiobook ends up with two visions for a new Europe - one hopeful, one pessimistic - which paint a picture of Europe in crisis and offer a choice as to what, if anything, we can do next. But perhaps Spengler was right: 'civilizations, like humans, are born, briefly flourish, decay, and die'.

©2017 Douglas Murray (P)2017 Audible, Ltd

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"This is a vitally important book, the contents of which should be known to everyone who can influence the course of events, at this critical time in the history of Europe." (Sir Roger Scruton)

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Everyone needs to read this as soon as possible!

Clear and to the point, this refreshingly honest and objective explanation of the greatest global crisis of our time is sure to spark pertinent discussion the world over. This could be one of the most important publications of the decade.

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An Insightful Analysis of the Migrant Crisis

In The Strange Death of Europe Douglas Murray dispels myths about the benefits of mass migration, identifies the origin of the West's loss of faith in its values, institutions, religion and culture and explains how Europe has ended up in such a terrifying situation as well as much more!

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A must read

In the late 1970s we first visited Britain and there was concern about the impact migration was having on the character of their communities. There was a sense of hopelessness then which surprised me.
Now 40 years later visits to Europe show how much ground has been relinquished. The politicians and bureaucrats have betrayed their communities. This book goes a long way to explain how the death of Europe came to be. It also applies to America and Australia and the West at large. I recommend this book.

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Frightening

The story of how feel-good virue signalling Leftism and the globalist elite like Merkel are actively manifesting the suicide of Europe, possibly with no chance of recovery.

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An eye opening and informed masterpiece.

Murray presents with clarity, data and with a distinct ability to make rational connections of most of the policies, people and the events that together have undone the fundamental identity of Europe in the past decades. His approach to the recent past and current reality feels like fresh air for those that are fed up with the edulcorated rhetoric propinated on a daily basis by most of the European media and politicians.
A recommended read for who realises the value in being European and sees as undisputed the preference of the European society over virtually any other society, past and present. We do need infinitely today intellectual like Murray to talk publically as much as it is practical.

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Defending Western Culture and Values

An erudite and well presented alternative to the usual PC platitudes on Islam and terrorism.

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brilliant

The most important book regarding the migrant crisis in europe I've ever read. Amazing read

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Well researched & interesting book

This was a nicely balanced look at what’s happening in Europe.
I was shocked to hear how “racism” is thrown around as a way to stop all dissenting voices.
The kindness and self flagellation of Europe is not being done in any Middle East nations, where I imagine they watch on with amusement at the people destroying themselves and their own countries.
For the first time I understand why Britons all voted to leave the union. Trade is important but not so important it warrants giving up your sovereignty.
Reminds me of Victoria Australia during the pandemic.
Money & dollars were offered to close all businesses, schools, parks, gyms, churches and stay inside and take the “medicine”. People who refused lost their jobs, and so couldn’t pay their mortgages and then lost their houses - eventually leaving for other States.
But where can Europe go?
Sometimes all the money and supposed benefits in the world are not worth giving up one’s freedoms and lifestyle.

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A brilliant analysis of the collapse of European society

Very insightful commentaries on the policies of the main countries of Europe over the last 10 years facing a dangerous increase of immigrants. It is flabbergasting to see how little gouvernements have acted in favour of their citizens over the last few decades and how now Europe is in an irreversible dramatic situation in which Europeans are no longer able to truly feel home in Europe. It is a continent where no one feels safe, happy to live and work as well as free to speak. The face of Europe has changed forever and may no longer be called Europe before we know it.

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Strange Death of Europe is a tragedy, and a masterpiece of journalism. A must read for the entire West.

Read this after Madness + WotW, and it’s just as impactful.. it’s given me further context and deeper insights on the question of immigration, and terrified me on the question of our cultural identity. I also wish to go back and read/listen to everything this man has written, and I hope he considers recording his own narrations (possibly with a small update like he has done with Madness) for his older, lesser known titles. I’d like to own them all in print as well, as hardcover editions. I wish Douglas Murray was reading to me, as he has such a unique and powerful voice, but this narrator does a fantastic job. Strange Death of Europe is a must have, and so relevant to all of the West. If you loved The War on the West, then you will want to read this as well.

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