Sleeping with the enemy : Coco Chanel's secret war /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 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."--Page [3] of jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780307592637 0307592634 9780701185008 0701185007 |