Sleeping with the enemy : Coco Chanel, Nazi agent /
By: Vaughan, Hal
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Knopf, 2011.Description: xx, 279 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780701185015; 0307592634Subject(s): Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971 | Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971 | Fashion designers -- France -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany | Espionage, German -- History -- 20th century | Fashion designers -- France -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany | German espionage -- HistoryDDC classification: 746.9/2/092 | BItem type | Home library | Call number | url | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 746.92092 VA SL (Browse shelf) | link | Available | T0044078 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-265) and index.
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 -- Come back Coco.
Chronicles Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's life from 1941 to 1954, a period that was previously shrouded in mystery, when she closed down her couture house, lived in the Hotel Ritz, and eventually moved to Switzerland following the war, revealing details of her decades-long affair with a high-ranking official in Hitler's army and her work as a German intelligence operative.
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Adult.