Bibliograph

Sleeping with the enemy, Coco Chanel's secret war, Hal Vaughan

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Label

Sleeping with the enemy, Coco Chanel's secret war, Hal Vaughan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sleeping with the enemy

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Hal Vaughan

Sub title

Coco Chanel's secret war

Summary

"The book pieces together how Coco Chanel became a German intelligence operative; how and why she was enlisted in a number of spy missions; how she escaped arrest in France after the war, despite her activities being known to the Gaullist intelligence network; how she fled to Switzerland for a nine-year exile with her lover Dincklage. And how, despite the French court's opening a case concerning Chanel's espionage activities during the war, she was able to return to Paris at age seventy and triumphantly resurrect and reinvent herself--and rebuild what has become the iconic House of Chanel."--P. [3] of jacket

Table Of Contents

Metamorphosis--Gabrielle becomes Coco -- The scent of a woman -- Coco's golden duke -- A Hollywood divertissement -- Exit Paul, enter Spatz -- And then the war came -- Paris occupied--Chanel a refugee -- Dincklage meets Hitler; Chanel becomes an Abwehr agent -- Checkmated by the Wertheimers -- A mission for Himmler -- Coco's luck -- Comeback Coco

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