Sleeping with the enemy Coco Chanel's secret war
"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-...
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c2011.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Vaughan, Hal, |d 1928- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Sleeping with the enemy : |b Coco Chanel's secret war / |c Hal Vaughan. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c c2011. | ||
| 300 | |a xx, 279 p. : |b ill. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 -- Come back Coco. | |
| 520 | |a "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. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Chanel, Coco, |d 1883-1971. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fashion designers |z France |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Secret service |z Germany. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Espionage, German |x History |y 20th century. | |
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