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Description
Europe: An Obituary 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. The book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities, it is also an eye-witness 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 that they want them in to the places which cannot accept them. A discursive interlude after each chapter also takes a step back and looks at the bigger issues which lie behind a continent's death-wish, and answers the question of why anyone – let alone an entire civilisation – would do this to themselves.
Product details
Published | 01 Aug 2017 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 352 |
ISBN | 9781472954855 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
Illustrations | No illustrations |
Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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By far the most compelling political book of the year was Douglas Murray's The Strange Death of Europe … fearless, truth-telling, and masterfully organised … Don't hold an opinion about this book if you have not read it.
Evening Standard, Books of the Year 2017
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This is a brilliant, important and profoundly depressing book. That it is written with Douglas Murray's usual literary elegance and waspish humour does not make it any less depressing. That Murray will be vilified for it by the liberals who have created the appalling mess he describes does not make it any less brilliant and important … Read it.
Rod Liddle, Sunday Times
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His overall thesis, that a guilt-driven and exhausted Europe is playing fast and loose with its precious modern values by embracing migration on such a scale, is hard to refute.
Juliet Samuel, Telegraph
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Every so often, something is published which slices through the fog of confusion, obfuscation and the sheer dishonesty of public debate to illuminate one key fact about the world. Such a work is Douglas Murray's tremendous and shattering book, The Strange Death of Europe.
Melanie Phillips, The Times
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Breathtakingly gripping
Michael Gove, Standpoint
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A cogent summary of how, over three decades or more, elites across western Europe turned a blind eye to the failures of integration and the rise of Islamism … Persuasive
The Times