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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 (2,558 ratings)

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Summary

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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Hugely controversial - but gripping

Douglas Murray believes that the unprecedented scale of the current immigration into Europe will fundamentally change the nature of our continent and culture. He argues that this has been permitted, or sometimes encouraged, by the political class, but has never been supported by the populations of European countries. When polled, solid majorities reject the idea that their country should welcome in large numbers of strangers.

Clearly, this is thin ice for any commentator, and I sometimes found the book too negative and polemical. I'm not sure the typical European is guilt-ridden and self-flagelating to the degree Murray portrays. However, he constantly scores points which cause me a sharp intake of breath. I'll mention two. How long would it take the reader to become a fully operational Chinese person - speaking and writing Chinese and well-integrated into Chinese culture? And yet we think a Somalian, or whatever, can integrate into Germany or England with a few culture and language lessons? Hmm, quite an interesting thought experiment. Second, he asks why the birth rate is so low in most rich European countries. I know the answer (from my personal experience as someone who would dearly like to become a Granny), but Murray supplies it anyway. If you are a two-working-parents family in the UK or Italy the costs of setting yourself up with a home and security, mean you have to wait to start a family. If you start late, and struggle with those costs, you will only have one or two children. Is the answer to this to bring in young people from abroad to make up the demographic shortfall? Ouch Douglas, that really hurt. I found Murrey's softness for Christianity a bit odd; Yes, they built nice Cathedrals, but Europe didn't get rid of barbaric practices like slavery, torture and homo-phobia because of Christianity - it took reason and the enlightenment for that.

If you are a Jeremy Corbyn supporter, or a PC-liberal sort of person, you will find this book hard to read and no doubt you will dismiss it as polemical if not downright racist. People have been shot for saying things of this ilk, so I do hope DM takes his precautions. For myself, I found it refreshing to hear someone educated (Eton, Oxford) and measured taking on this difficult subject (Nigel Farage eat your heart out).

Narration: Robert Davies is an excellent match for the author, and has the added skill of being able to correctly pronounce names and phrases in French, Dutch, German... However, he commits the cardinal sin of non-fiction narration: Davies does accents for quotes from foreigners. I find this becomes unbearable when he is called upon to do the voice of an immigrant - for example, the Somali-Dutch-American Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She probably doesn't even speak like that. Ugh.

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Douglas Murray is a secular prophet

He told me everything I thought I already and much more. I consider him to be one of the brave voices sailing against the tide of political correctness and cowardice.

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Very thought provoking

I thought this was excellent, I was listening to LBC and heard the author discussing his book, I thought I must get this.Wow! I learnt so much more about the situation in Europe other than that which is obvious to a sensible person.Very detailed, I felt a lot of research went into this book and it kept me interested and I will listen to it again.I couldn't agree more with every word the author has to say, I hope many more people listen to this, not to cause chaos but to stop it.This book seems spot on to me, not one part of it didn't feel right about it, it's beautifully written and being more to the point, not being cruel, just being factual, something some people tend to ignore, a lot! I myself am gay, slightly different but not at the same time but I'm female so I haven't quite had a bad time about my sexuality, but I heard the author stating about the difference well really between cities and the countryside for example, the cities are more diverse hence the survey showing a lot of homophobia, god forbid anyone call someone that, we are near the bottom of the barrel.I completely understand though as I come from Somerset and people don't really care about anyone else's business really, I have been living in london for 21 years now and can say I can definitely see the difference and also why.To many opinions, some prioritising others, chaos really.Anyway fantastic book.If the author reads reviews il get a paper copy let me know if your doing a book signing, would love a signed copy.

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Simply, a must read.

Unprecedented in its form, Murray's book is THE book to read about immigration, regardless of your political leanings.

The expected practical analysis is brilliant but the philosophical and historical discussion is what most amazed me, Murray traces the evolution/degradation of the European psyche back in order to explain the current circumstances of immigration to Europe.

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Incredible book. Rouses anger and clarity.

Rouses clarity and anger in equal measure. Phenomenally well-written and well-researched. The vacuous feeling of despair one must surely sit with while reading, is, regrettably, palpable and very real. Upon its conclusion, I felt despondent, but clear-minded. Leaving Europe is the solution for my family, sadly.

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Interesting

quite an eye opener makes you think all the way through what's to come eh

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Must read for nuanced view.

Murray presents a deep and philosophical look at Europe without shying away from taboos. Brilliant!

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A very well researched book.

Good analysis and insight, this has to be on your list if your interested in politics at any level..

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Really Good!

I love my country and my history. I am not ashamed and I don't understand why we have to be destroyed?

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Brilliant but depressing.

I would have preferred to listen to Douglas Murray narrate his own book, Robert Davies makes this sound very much like an Adam Curtis documentary.

This is a radically different, and more truthful, account of the crisis that Europe's political class has brought upon its people in recent decades than one is used to hearing in the news media.

Like many of the people who have been brave enough to come forward and push back against the growing influence of radical Islam in Europe Murray is clearly not a racist or some kind of radical right winger.

It's a bit of a disappointment to reach the end of a book in which he so carefully and clearly outlined the problem and its causes without him proposing a solution. Maybe the problem is quite simply insoluble.

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