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  • The Strange Death of Europe

  • Immigration, Identity, Islam
  • By: Douglas Murray
  • Narrated by: Robert Davies
  • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (2,673 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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Open Mind

I went in to this book with an open mind, armed with the notion that will be quite controversial.

What I was surprised with, is that Douglas Murray had done his research and not just google his facts but actually been out in the field and interviewed people across Europe. This makes many of his argument backed up by personal experiences and evidence.

I do feel however though, that I now need to read an opposing book so that I can weigh up his arguments fully.

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Essential Reading

Very informative and worrying. It especially highlights the lunacy of European politicians and policy they have imposed.

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Wow...everyone should read this!

This is without doubt one the best books I have read....this should be required reading for everyone

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An attempt to reintroduce nuance to the polarised and stifled debate on immigration

One of the things you will realise if you watch news media coverage of immigration related issues, or have discussions about immigration in polite company is that there are only two positions: the first is to be entirely onboard with any and all immigration because to be otherwise is unconscionable, the second is that you're a mouth-breathing racist skinhead seeking to revitalise the worst movements of history.

This book suggests, and details, a more nuanced middle ground where we might want to consider moving the discussion. One where asking questions contrary to the media line might be considered something other than bigotry or racism.

The media narrative does a good job of showing us the worst of what racism is and does, but the trap we've fallen into is believing an almost cartoon-like oversimplification that any dissent from the default position of "all immigration, and all immigrants are a force for good" is somehow an affront to human decency.

We desperately need to be having these discussions and this book is a great effort to prime that pump.

I consider myself a liberal and do not align with neocon views. Luckily, this book doesn't require a hard neocon starting point to be of value.

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really interesting

enjoyed this book, it's an interesting perspective on Europe. makes you aware of the mess our leaders have created for us all

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Insightful

Often uncomfortable but always gripping, Murray addressed issues of social incompatibility and civilisational ennui in this (in my view puzzlingly) controversial book.

Plus, the narrator does accents. They’re mostly quite good.

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Excellent analysis of the threat to Europe

Expertly told history and analysis of the existential threat to European culture and prosperity caused by the disconnect between the people of Europe and their political masters. Worrying stuff but an essential read.

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Very insightful and disturbing.

I can't really say that I like or dislike this book because to like it would show a lack of understanding of the content and to dislike it would show a disregard to the very real issues and factual information that it provides. I would recommend this book to mainly all politicians within the European Union and all the citizens that consider themselves Europeans. I was already aware of most of the issues this book tries to convey that are either ignored entirely or hidden from the wider public but this has cleared a lot of unknowns and tied the stories together well.

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good

very good. very very very good. Best thing since sliced bread. Highly recommended, trust me.

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the message in this book needs to be known...!!

Amazing that we as a society about to be overwhelmed do not see the simple facts in this book

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