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Sleeping with the enemy [electronic resource] : Coco Chanel's secret war / Hal Vaughan.

Vaughan, Hal, 1928- (Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307957030 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307957039 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 279 p.) : ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.