Karina Urbach is a qualified historian and author. She has taught at German and British universities and conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Urbach has been involved in numerous historical documentaries for the BBC and ZDF. Her most important nonfiction books are “Hitlers heimliche Helfer” (Go-Betweens For Hitler), “Queen Victoria” and “Das Buch Alice. Wie die Nazis das Kochbuch meiner Großmutter raubten” (“Alice’s Book: How The Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookbook”). The latter has been translated into seven languages and was adapted into an award-winning ARTE documentary. Karina Urbach’s novel about an authentic espionage group, “Cambridge 5 – Zeit der Verräter”(Time Of The Traitors) which she published under the pseudonym Hannah Coler, won the 2018 Crime Cologne Award. She lives with her family in Cambridge, England.

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