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  • Sleeping with the Enemy

    Coco Chanel's Secret War

    by Hal Vaughan ...
    “From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.” –André MalrauxCoco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture.She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair. She used ordinary jersey as couture fabric, elevated ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Doctor to the Resistance

    by Hal Vaughan ...
    Maine-born Dr. Sumner ôJackö 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. When the war was over, Jackson joined the staff of the American Hospital in Paris, where he quickly became a favorite physician of such Lost Generation figures as Hemingway and Fitzgerald.During World War II, Jackson ... Read more

    $17.95 USD

  • FDR's 12 Apostles

    The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa

    by Hal Vaughan ...
    Nineteen months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR sent twelve "viceconsuls" to Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia on a secret mission. Their objective? To prepare the groundwork for what eventually became Operation TORCH, the Allied invasion of North Africa that repelled the Nazis and also enabled the liberation of Italy. This spy network included an ex-Cartier jewel salesman and wine merchant, a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Sleeping with the Enemy

    Coco Chanel's Secret War

    by Hal Vaughan ...
    Narrated by Susan Denaker, Mark Deakins ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    “From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.” –André MalrauxCoco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture.She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair. She used ordinary jersey as couture fabric, elevated ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • That Woman

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  • Coco Chanel

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  • Explaining Hitler

    The Search for the Origins of His Evil, updated edition

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    In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians, scholars, filmmakers, and deniers as he skeptically analyzes the key strains of Hitler interpretation.A balanced and thoughtful overview of a ... Read more

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