The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam [Hardcover]

A controversial and devastatingly honest depiction of the demise of Europe.

The Strange Death of Europeis the internationally bestselling account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Douglas Murray takes a step back and explores the deeper issues behind the continent's possible demise, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks and a global refugee crisis to the steady erosion of our freedoms. He addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkels U-turn on migration, and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, 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.

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 sharp and incisive book 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.

Lively . . . Murrays 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. Murrays is also a truly liberal intellect, in that he is free from the power that taboo exerts over the European problem, but he doesnt betray the slightest hint of atavism or meanspiritedness. - Michael Brendan Dougherty,The National Review

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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