List Number: | 22458 |
EAN: | 9788088382140 |
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Manufacturer: | EMG |
Price excluding VAT: | 159,20 Kč (6,63 €) |
Inspired by the real events of Queen Paris, a new novel by the award -winning author of Pamela Binnings Ewen, colorfully depicts the hidden life of Coco Chanel during the four years of the Nazi occupation of Paris in the middle of World War II, as revealed in recently discovered war archival materials. Coco Chanel was able to be provocative, cheerful, reckless and generous, but she could also be ruthless, sometimes even cruel, able to manipulate people. At a time when the Vichry War and the Wehrmacht marches on Champs-Élysées, Chanel finds himself at the Ritz Hotel, where he dwells the highest imperial command. Surrounded by the enemy, it wages a private war to tear power over its fragrant society from the hands of its Jewish partner in business, Pierre Wertheimer. While Coco Chanel tries to keep the sources of her revenue and her new life in luxury untouched, Paris is falling to the ground under the iron fist of German domination. Coco Chanel will do everything possible to survive. She even agrees with the collaboration with the Nazis to protect her darkest secrets. When Germany secretly acquires her as a spy for the empire, she becomes an agent F-7124 with the code name Westminster. But why? How far will he go to prevent his stormy past to chase her in the future?