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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 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.

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  • "Vaughan, Coco Chanel - Der schwarze Engel"

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  • ""Le livre choc sur Coco Chanel"Recréant à merveille l'atmosphère du Tout-Paris de l'époque, cette biographie explosive éclaire d'un jour nouveau la personnalité insaisissable d'une femme dont le génie provocateur n'a pas fini de fasciner."
  • ""This explosive narrative reveals for the first time the shocking hidden years of Coco Chanel's life: her collaboration with the Nazis in Paris, her affair with a master spy, and her work for the German military intelligence service and Himmler's SS. Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was the high priestess of couture who created the look of the modern woman. By the 1920s she had amassed a fortune and went on to create an empire. But her life from 1941 to 1954 has long been shrouded in rumor and mystery, never clarified by Chanel or her many biographers. Hal Vaughan exposes the truth of her wartime collaboration and her long affair with the playboy Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage--who ran a spy ring and reported directly to Goebbels. Vaughan pieces together how Chanel became a Nazi agent, how she escaped arrest after the war and joined her lover in exile in Switzerland, and how--despite suspicions about her past--she was able to return to Paris at age seventy and rebuild the iconic House of Chanel."--Page [4] of cover of the English edition."
  • ""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."@en
  • "Uncovers the true story of Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel in occupied Paris during the Second World War. Hal Vaughan reveals: her life as an Abwehr secret agent; her long love affair with a Nazi master spy; her missions on behalf of German military intelligence; and her astonishing escape from retribution through the intervention of Winston Churchill."
  • "This book explores 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."
  • "¿Fue realmente Chanel una agente de la Gestapo? En agosto de 1944 la ciudad de París fue liberada. Este hecho puso el punto final a cuatro años de vergüenza y de miedo reprimido, y desató entre la población odio y frustración. Ciudadanos vengativos deambulaban por las calles de pueblos y ciudades. Los culpables y muchos inocentes fueron castigados en un ajuste privado de cuentas. Aquellos collabos ?hombres y mujeres que colaboraban con Hitler? fueron molidos a golpes o asesinados. Coco Chanel, símbolo de la moda del siglo XX, estaba entre los marcados para la venganza. ¿Fue realmente una agente de la Gestapo? Durante más de medio siglo la vida de Chanel desde 1941 hasta 1954 ha estado rodeada de imprecisiones y rumores, misterio y mitos. El periodista y productor de documentales Hal Vaughan ofrece en La guerra secreta de Coco Chanel, gracias a un estilo periodístico brillante, documentado y lleno de suspenso, la cara oculta del mito de la alta costura: su colaboración con los nazis, las misiones en las que participó como espía, su relación con el barón Hans Gunter von Dincklage, un peligroso agente del servicio de información alemán, y su declarada ideología antisemita; pero no sólo eso, también sus orígenes como empleada, su actitud decidida y su ambición que la llevaron a crear un imperio de la nada y a casarse con un hombre simplemente para conseguir sus objetivos. Thriller, periodismo, historia, biografía se conjugan con maestría en un libro que desvela el papel de Coco en la Gestapo y cómo después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial reconstruyó lo que hasta ese momento había sido la emblemática firma Chanel."
  • ""This explosive narrative reveals for the first time the shocking hidden years of Coco Chanel's life: her collaboration with the Nazis in Paris, her affair with a master spy, and her work for the German military intelligence service and Himmler's SS. Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was the high priestess of couture who created the look of the modern woman. By the 1920s she had amassed a fortune and went on to create an empire. But her life from 1941 to 1954 has long been shrouded in rumor and mystery, never clarified by Chanel or her many biographers. Hal Vaughan exposes the truth of her wartime collaboration and her long affair with the playboy Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage--who ran a spy ring and reported directly to Goebbels. Vaughan pieces together how Chanel became a Nazi agent, how she escaped arrest after the war and joined her lover in exile in Switzerland, and how--despite suspicions about her past--she was able to return to Paris at age seventy and rebuild the iconic House of Chanel."--P. [4] of cover."@en
  • ""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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  • "Large type books"
  • "Biographie"@en
  • "Biographie"
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  • "Biography"
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  • "Coco Chanel - Der schwarze Engel : ein Leben als Nazi-Agentin"
  • "В постели с врагом : тайная война Коко Шанель"
  • "Coco Chanel - der schwarze Engel ein Leben als Nazi-Agentin"
  • "Sleeping with the enemy Coco Chanel, Nazi agent"
  • "Sleeping with the enemy"
  • "V posteli s vragom : taĭnai︠a︡ voĭna Koko Shanelʹ"
  • "Sleeping with the enemy : Coco Chanel, Nazi agent"
  • "Coco Chanel - der schwarze Engel : ein Leben als Nazi-Agentin"
  • "La guerra secreta de Coco Chanel : el pasado nazi de uno de los mitos de la alta costura"@es
  • "La guerra secreta de Coco Chanel : el pasado Nazi de uno de los mitos de la alta costura"
  • "Dans le lit de l'ennemi : Coco Chanel sous l'occupation"
  • "Coco Chanel - Der schwarze Engel Ein Leben als Nazi-Agentin"
  • "Sleeping with the enemy : Coco Chanel's secret war"
  • "Dans le lit de l'ennemi : Coco Chanel sous l'Occupation"
  • "Sleeping with the enemy : Coco Chanel's secret war"@en
  • "Coco Chanel : der schwarze Engel : ein Leben als Nazi-Agentin"
  • "Dans le lit de l'ennemi"
  • "Coco Chanel : sypiając z wrogiem"@pl

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