By Hal Vaughan

This explosive narrative unearths for the 1st time the stunning hidden years of Coco Chanel’s lifestyles: her collaboration with the Nazis in Paris, her affair with a grasp secret agent, and her paintings for the German army intelligence carrier and Himmler’s SS.

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was once the excessive priestess of couture who created the glance of the trendy lady. by way of the Twenties she had gathered a fortune and went directly to create an empire. yet her existence from 1941 to 1954 has lengthy been shrouded in rumor and secret, by no means clarified through Chanel or her many biographers. Hal Vaughan exposes the reality of her wartime collaboration and her lengthy affair with the playboy Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage—who ran a undercover agent ring and said on to Goebbels. Vaughan items jointly how Chanel grew to become a Nazi agent, how she escaped arrest after the warfare and joined her lover in exile in Switzerland, and how—despite suspicions approximately her past—she was once capable of go back to Paris at age seventy and rebuild the enduring condominium of Chanel.

 

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