The unauthorized biography of the world's most famous, seductive, and successful perfume With its rich golden hue, art deco?inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel No. 5 is the world's b
In The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life - for the first time - the fascinating woman behind the iconic yellow label: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin. A young witness to the dramatic eve
Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour, style, and luxury. In The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life—for the first time—the fascinating woman behind the iconic yellow label: Barbe-Nic
The unauthorized biography of the world's most famous, seductive, and successful perfumeWith its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel No. 5 is the world's bests
With its rich golden hue, art deco?inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel No. 5 is the world?s bestselling perfume and arguably the most coveted luxury product of the twentieth century. In
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping true account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500
In a tale as twisted as any spy thriller, find out how three women were drawn together to deliver critical evidence of Axis war crimes to Allied forces during World War II: ';Mazzeo is a fascinating storyteller' (New York Journal of Books).In 1944, the war had reached itsclimax incontinentalEurope. News of secret diaries kept by Italys former Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, had permeated public consciousness.What wasnt reported, however, was how three womena Fascists daughter, a German spy, and an American socialiterisked their lives to ensure the diaries would reach the Allied forces, who would use the papers as key evidence against the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials.Just a year earlier, Edda Mussolini, Benito Mussolinis daughter, had given Hitler and her father an ultimatum: release her husband, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husbands journals to the press.Knowing the diaries will expose Nazi lies and create a foundation for a criminal war crimes prosecution
Taking readers behind the doors of Paris's Hotel Ritz during the Nazi occupation of World War II, this extraordinary chronicle reveals a hotbed of illicit affairs, deadly intrigues, courageous acts of
In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel Taylor Colerid
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hotel on Place Vendome is the captivating history of Paris’s world-famous Hotel Ritz—a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and
For desperate families trapped inside the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 with small children, one name was whispered urgently. It was the name of a young social worker in her thirties with the courage to take
From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a comprehensive and riveting biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Ale
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 child
From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a “vivid, compelling, and unputdownable new biography” (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling autho
