Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307475913 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Hal Vaughan ably demonstrates that Chanel was far from an innocent victim of circumstance during the second world war but a fully fledged Abwehr (German secret service) agent with her own number and codename: Westminster (no doubt a nod to her one-time lover, the Duke of Westminster). Vaughan, who writes with welcome economy and flair, deserves a lot of credit for finally unraveling the strands of Chanel’s deeply deceptive personality.”—Tobias Grey, Financial Times“Sleeping with the Enemy distinguishes itself from the many other Chanel biographies by tackling the dicey subject of Gabrielle Chanel’s activities during World War II This is a frank and unsentimental portrait of a figure that fashion writers are nearly incapable of criticizing . While Vaughan’s discussions of Chanel’s contributions to fashion add nothing new to
Coco Chanel and the Nazis This work is well named. However, the name does not cover Chanel's treachery in serving the Nazis. Having grown up regarding Chanel as a splendid couturier, and Chanel Number 5 as an especially nice scent, I was disappointed in her virulent antisemitism, although she was far from alone in that. It seemed to be endem. GrammyTN said Had a hard time getting through this book. It. Had a hard time getting through this book. It was interesting since I wasn't aware of her background and was only aware of her accomplishments in fashion and perfume, but got lost is so many names and places.. Interesting read. Not enough to prove she really collaborated Interesting read. Not enough to prove she really collaborated but it's believable.
Vaughan is the author of Doctor to the Resistance:The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris and FDR’s 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa. He served in the U.S. Hal Vaughan has been a newsman, foreign correspondent, and documentary film producer working in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia since 1957. He lives in Paris. military in World War II and Korea and has
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. . By the 1920s she had amassed a fortune and went on to create an empire. This explosive narrative reveals fo