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Sleeping with the enemy : Coco Chanel's secret war / Hal Vaughan.

by Vaughan, Hal, 1928-

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.

Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971.

Fashion designers -- France -- Biography.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany.

Espionage, German -- History -- 20th century.

xx, 279 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Metamorphosis--Gabrielle becomes Coco -- The scent of a woman -- Coco's golden duke -- A Hollywood divertissement -- Exit Paul, enter Spatz -- And then the war came -- Paris occupied--Chanel a refugee -- Dincklage meets Hitler; Chanel becomes an Abwehr agent -- Checkmated by the Wertheimers -- A mission for Himmler -- Coco's luck -- Comeback Coco.

"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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