Centering her account around Coco Chanel, social historian Anne de Courcy explores the luxury of the Cote d'Azur elite amidst the terror of the Second World War. While others were undergoing evacuations, displacement, and persecution, Chanel was living a life of glamor with the likes of Winston Churchill, Salvador Dalí, and Edith Wharton. This fascinating social history includes original research into this fascinating account of Coco Chanel and her world in the 1930s and '40s.