Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War

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This explosive narrative reveals for the primary 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 used to be the high priestess of couture who created the look of the up to date 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 reality of her wartime collaboration and her long affair with the playboy Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage—who ran a spy ring and reported straight away to Goebbels. Vaughan pieces together how Chanel turned into a Nazi agent, how she escaped arrest after the war and joined her lover in exile in Switzerland, and how—in spite of suspicions about her past—she used to be in a position to go back to Paris at age seventy and rebuild the enduring House of Chanel.

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