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
This is a brilliant, important and profoundly depressing book. That it is written ... Read morewith 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
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
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
Breathtakingly gripping
Michael Gove, Standpoint
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
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
Douglas Murray glitters in the gloom. His pessimism about multiculturalism is so well constructed and written it is almost uplifting. Liberals will want to rebut him. I should warn them that they will need to argue harder than they have ever argued before.
Nick Cohen
Douglas Murray's introduction to this already destructive subject of Islamist hegemony is a distinguished attempt to clarify the origins of a storm. I found myself continually wishing that he wasn't making himself quite so clear.
Clive James
Douglas Murray writes so well that when he is wrong he is dangerous
Matthew Parris, Spectator
Whether one agrees with him or not Murray has made a valuable contribution to the global battle of ideas
Amir Taheri, Asharq al-Awsat
Masterly
Christopher Hitchens on Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
Powerful and engaging ... Murray is at his strongest when lampooning the neurotic guilt of Western liberal elites ... Disagree passionately if you will, but you won't regret reading it.
Literary Review
A compelling, insightful and persuasively argued narrative ... a deeply humane book that touches on individual tragedy ... It may even prove to be the start of a conversation, and for such a dangerously politicised and neglected subject, that would be most welcome. The combination of fascinating subject matter and superb writing make The Strange Death of Europe a title that stays in the mind throughout the reading process and beyond.
Entertainment Focus
Powerfully argued
Roland White, Sunday Times Political Books of the Year, 2017
This is the most disturbing political book I've read this year. Based on travels through key European centres, Murray weaves a tale of uncontrolled immigration, failed multiculturalism, systemic self-doubt, cultural suicide and disingenuous political leadership. Accurate, insightful and devastating, with applicable lessons for countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Please read Douglas Murray's The Strange Death of Europe
Morrissey
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