Sleeping with the enemy
Subtitle: Coco Chanel's secret war
By: by Hal Vaughan
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780307592637
Subjects: Secret service; German Espionage; World War, 1939-1945; History; Biography; Fashion designers
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Metamorphosis : Gabrielle becomes Coco; title: The scent of a woman; title: Coco's golden duke; title: A Hollywood divertissement; title: Exit Paul, enter Spatz; title: And then the war came; title: Paris occupied : Chanel, a refugee; title: Dincklage meets Hitler, Chanel becomes an Abwehr agent; title: Checkmated by the Wertheimers; title: A mission for Himmler; title: Coco's luck; title: Come back Coco.