Sleeping with the enemy
Subtitle: Coco Chanel, Nazi agent
By: Hal Vaughan
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print; Clipper large print
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rearsby [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781407496856
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Fashion designers; Biography; World War, 1939-1945; Secret service; German Espionage; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Standard print ed published: U.K. : Chatto & Windus, 2011.
Table of contents: title: Metamorphosis : Gabrielle becomes Coco; title: 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.