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Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War.

Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War.

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Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War.

by VAUGHAN, HAL

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New York; Alfred A. Knopf; 2011.. First US Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xx, 279; (2); text illustrated with numerous b/w. photographs, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original grey cloth, title lettered in black on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. 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.

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Hal Vaughan has been a newsman, foreign correspondent, and documentary film producer working in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia since 1957. He served in the U.S. military in World War II and Korea and has held various posts as a U.S. Foreign Service officer. Vaughan is the author of Doctor to the Resistance: The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris and FDR’s 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa . He lives in Paris.

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Title
Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War.
Author
VAUGHAN, HAL
Book Condition
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Hardcover
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New York; Alfred A. Knopf; 2011.
Keywords
fde gmil biography military europe france second world war fashion history

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