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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
A WATERSTONES POLITICS PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR, 2018
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 change as a society.
This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who appear to welcome them in to the places which cannot accept them.
Told from this first-hand perspective, and backed with impressive research and evidence, the book 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. In each chapter he also takes a step back to look at the bigger issues which lie behind a continent's death-wish, answering the question of why anyone, let alone an entire civilisation, would do this to themselves?
He ends with two visions of 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.
Table of Contents
The beginning
How we got hooked on immigration
The excuses we told ourselves
'Welcome to Europe'
'We have seen everything'
Multiculturalism
They are here
Prophets without honour
Early-warning sirens
The tyranny of guilt
The pretence of repatriation
Learning to live with it
Tiredness
We're stuck with this
Controlling the backlash
The feeling that the story has run out
The end
What might have been
What will be
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Product details
Published | Jun 14 2018 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 384 |
ISBN | 9781472964274 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
Illustrations | No illustrations |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Lively . . . Murray's book is informed by actual reporting across the Continent, and a quality of writing that manages to be spritely and elegiac at the same time. Murray's is also a truly liberal intellect, in that he is free from the power that taboo exerts over the European problem, but he doesn't betray the slightest hint of atavism or meanspiritedness.
Michael Brendan Dougherty, The National Review
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Timely . . . Murray takes a stance that few dare to take . . . With violence erupting in Europe and America's new anti-immigration policies, this audacious work will find its readers.
Kirkus Reviews
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. . . fiery, lucid, and essential polemic.
Sohrab Ahmari, Commentary
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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 humor 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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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