Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Title:   The Many Lives of Miss K: Toto Koopman - Model, Muse, Spy Author:   Jean-Noel Liaut, Denise Raab Jacobs (Translator) Publisher:   Rizzoli Books   Pub Date:    9/3/2013   Pages:   244   How Acquired:   ARC through Edelweiss From the back cover:    A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural and political movements of twentieth-century Europe. "Toto" Koopman (1908–1991) is a new addition to the set of iconoclastic women whose biographies intrigue and inspire modern-day readers. Like her contemporaries Lee Miller or Vita Sackville-West, Toto lived with an independent spirit more typical of the men of her generation, moving in the worlds of fashion, society, art, and politics with an insouciant ease that would stir both admiration and envy even today. Sphinxlike and tantalizing, Toto conducted her life as a game, driven by audacity and style. Jean-Noël Liaut chases his en...

Cast Sophia Magdalena 'Sophie' Scholl - Julia Jentsch Hans Fritz Scholl - Fabian Hinrichs Robert Mohr - Gerald Alexander Held Else Gebel - Johanna Gastdorf Dr. Roland Freisler - André Hennicke Christoph Hermann Probst - Florian Stetter Willi Graf - Maximilian Brückner Alexander Schmorell - Johannes Suhm Gisela Schertling - Lilli Jung Magdalena Scholl - Petra Kelling Robert Scholl - Jörg Hube Werner Scholl - Franz Staber Director: Marc Rothemund Written by: Fred Breinersdorfter Released: February 13, 2005   Synopsis:   Arrested for participating in the White Rose resistance movement, anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch) is subjected to a highly charged interrogation by the Gestapo, testing her loyalty to her cause, her family and her convictions. Based on true events, director Marc Rothemund's absorbing Oscar-nominated drama explores maintaining human resolve in the face of intense pressure from a system determined to silence whistle-blowers...

Title:   Sleeping with the Enemy - Coco Chanel's Secret War Author: Hal Vaughn Pub. Date: August 2011 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Format: Hardcover , 304pp Overview :  “From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.” –André Malraux Coco 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 the waistline, and created bell-bottom trousers, trench coats, and turtleneck sweaters. In the 1920s, when Chanel employed more than two thousand people in her workrooms, she had amassed a personal fortune of $15 million and went on to create an empire. Jean Cocteau once said of Chanel that she had the head of “a little black swan.” And, added Colette, “the heart of a little black...