The Strange Death of Europe

Immigration, Identity, Islam

By: Douglas Murray

Narrated by: Robert Davies

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

Critic reviews

"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)

Fantastic Insight Into a Grim Reality

I would highly recommend this book. Even if you are a person who would not normally agree with someone like Douglas Murray it is a must read. The insight this book gives into the fundamentally suicidal nature of modern day Europe is fascinating. The narration is quite good and matches the nature of this book well. I did find the conclusion to be a bit fatalistic or even apathetic, Murray does discuss some solutions/approaches to this crisis but the final chapter could have been more constructive.

The truth about the lies that European politicians have been telling their people for the last 20 years

The truth about the lies that European politicians have been telling their people for the last 20 years. It should be a lesson for other developed nations.

Tough to hear, but true.

Lived in Paris from 2010-2016, and I experienced this issue first hand. This book explains the mass immigration issue from many POVs, including the voice of the migrants.
I got the book because I lived the experience, but never understood the origins of the issue. Now I’m able to have an intelligent conversation about the topic.
It’s a very passionate book, and at some points it felt radicalized. The author warns there is no solution, which is hard to hear.
The narrator is AMAZING! One of the best readers I’ve ever heard: the use of slight dialects, the tonal shifts, the speed. Excellent!

Insightful

I'm a big fan of Douglas Murray's work and he did not disappoint, loved the book and learned lots.

important book

thank you for having the guts to write this book. it's very important people hear this.