Dead Funny
Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany
Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $16.95

In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed

Hitler and Göring are standing on top of the Berlin radio tower. Hitler says he wants to do something to put a smile on the Berliners’ faces. Göring says, “Why don’t you jump?”

When a woman told this joke in Germany in... Read more >

Dead Funny
Humor in Hitler's Germany
Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $26.00

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Dead Funny
Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany
Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Format: eBook
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $26.00

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A Short History of Nuclear Folly

Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Format: eBook
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $26.00

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A Short History of Nuclear Folly

Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $26.00

In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe. Rudolph Herzog presents a devastating account of history’s most irresponsible uses of nuclear technology. From the rarely... Read more >