Ebook {Epub PDF} Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel Nazi Agent by Hal Vaughan

Neither Chanel nor her many biographers have ever told the full story of these years. Now Hal Vaughan, in this explosive narrative—part suspense thriller, part wartime portrait—fully pieces together the hidden years of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s life, from the Nazi occupation of Paris to the aftermath of World War II. Sleeping with the Enemy-Hal Vaughan 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. 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.

In August , Vaughan published Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War, brought out by Alfred A. Knopf. Based on newly declassified French and German intelligence materials of the war years, the book revealed never-before-told details of how Coco Chanel served the Abwehr as Agent , code-name Westminster. Description Of Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent. "Tenacious digging into secret wartime records reveals a worsening case for the legendary French designer. Well rendered by Vaughan a sorry story of war-time collaboration, exacerbated by the lack of reckoning during her lifetime." -Kirkus Reviews. Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War 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.

For more than half a century, Chanel's life from to has been shrouded in rumour. Neither Chanel nor her biographers have told the full story, until now. In this explosive narrative Hal Vaughan pieces together Chanel's hidden years, from the Nazi occupation of Paris to the aftermath of the Liberation. The American Hospital at Neuilly: Keating in an unpublished paper, , found in Hal Vaughan, Doctor to the Resistance, pp. 44, 46– Even the French staple: Donald and Petie Kladstrup, Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure, pp. – Although long known that Coco Chanel lived through WWII in luxury with her German lover at the Paris Ritz and that Winston Churchill interceded on her behalf at the end of the war to protect her from prosecution as a collaborator, Vaughan's book researches recently de-classified documents that show Chanel was in fact an Abwehr agent recruited by the Nazis through her spymaste.