Hal Vaughan Knihy

Gabrielle „Coco“ Chanel, první dáma haute couture, vytvořila vzhled moderní ženy. Ve dvacátých letech minulého století vydělala obrovské jmění a vybudovala módní impérium. Její život mezi lety 1941 až 1954 zůstával ovšem dlouho zahalen dohady a tajemstvím, které ani ona ani autoři jejích životopisů nikdy neobjasnili. Hal Vaughan přichází s pravdou o její válečné kolaboraci a dlouhém vztahu s německým playboyem, baronem Hansem Güntherem von Dincklage – špionem, který stál v čele vyzvědačské sítě a zodpovídal se přímo Goebbelsovi. Vaughan rekonstruuje příběh toho, jak se Chanel stala nacistickou špionkou, jak po skončení války unikla zatčení a skrývala se se svým milencem ve Švýcarsku. A také, jak se – i přes podezření ohledně své kolaborantské minulosti – dokázala v sedmdesáti letech vrátit do Paříže a znovu postavit na nohy ikonický módní dům Chanel.

The narrative unfolds through the eyes of twelve diverse Americans sent on a covert mission to North Africa, laying the groundwork for Operation TORCH. Among them are a mix of adventurers, salesmen, and intellectuals, all caught in a web of espionage, betrayal, and complex relationships. The story, enriched by declassified records and personal memoirs, captures the intrigue surrounding the pivotal invasion, including the assassination of a key Vichy leader. Set against a backdrop of cultural interplay, it reveals the hidden machinations that led to victory in the Mediterranean Theater.

Maine-born Dr. Sumner Jack Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse.

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. Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was the high priestess of couture who created the look of the modern 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 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.

Discusses how the famous French fashion designer became a German intelligence operative during World War II, including how and why she was enlisted in spy missions, and how she rebuilt her empire after her post-war exile.

LAMBDA LITERARY OCTOBER'S MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ LITERATURETHE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023A novel about a city for artists and libertines, a perfect place to find love and madness. When he tired of Toronto’s insular scene, art critic Martin Heather fled to Berlin, where he tried to sleep his way through the entire population of gay men. And then he met Alexandar, who began to tutor Martin in increasingly violent sex – and in love. Pervatory is a series of journal entries about Martin and Alexandar’s relationship. But interjections from the present, where Martin has been institutionalized, suggest that the hints we get of his increasing instability and obsession with the idea that his apartment is haunted by an evil spirit may have led to something dire … RM Vaughan was an astute art critic, a dazzling poet, and an important queer activist. His untimely death in October 2020 was a tremendous loss to the queer and literary communities. This novel is what he left for us.

His perfectly planned life is about to go wild. By-the-numbers Bo Ferguson has his future all planned. Then his archaeologist fiancée dumps him. Via text. From Belize. Navigating the rainforest to win her back is way out of Bo's comfort zone, but so is the idea of starting over. Fortunately, he's secured a tour guide willing to lead him into the unmapped jungle. Unfortunately, she's annoying, impulsive--and attractive as hell. Jungle expert Alexandra Stone is in no position to turn down a job after her regrettable ex stole everything from her family business and ran. Sure, Bo might be frustratingly uptight, but Alex needs the money. And besides, there's something...fun about pushing the guy's adorably rigid buttons, especially when it clearly gets a rise out of him. But the close confines of their shared camp make it hard to ignore the tension beneath the bickering, prompting the sweltering heat between them to erupt into sweaty, wild passion. Bo can't deny his brief time with Alex has been the most exciting of his life. But the journey they're on still leads to one place--his ex-fiancée--forcing Bo and Alex to confront their pasts, their fears and the question of just where this adventure will take them...