Sleeping with the enemy
Coco Chanel's secret war
by Hal Vaughan
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"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.
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Secret service, German Espionage, World War, 1939-1945, History, Biography, Fashion designersPeople
Coco Chanel (1883-1971)Times
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Sleeping with the enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi agent
2012, W.F. Howes
in English
- Large print ed.
1407496859 9781407496856
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Sleeping with the enemy: Coco Chanel's secret war
2011, Knopf
in English
- 1st ed.
0307592634 9780307592637
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From 1941 to 1954 Coco Chanel's life was shrouded in rumour. Sleeping with the Enemy tells in detail how she went from being high priestess of couture to German intelligence operative, how she was enlisted in spy missions and why she evaded arrest in France after the war. It reveals the role played by Winston Churchill in her escape from retribution; and how, after a nine-year exile in Switzerland, Coco was able to return to Paris, reinvent herself and rebuild the House of Chanel.
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