Wolf Riedel

Wolf Riedel was born in Berlin Germany and grew up in Toronto Ontario. While in high school he started what would eventually become a forty-four year career with the army in both the reserve force and the regular force. He served with the artillery, the infantry and finally with the Office of the Judge Advocate General where, as a Colonel, he was Canada's senior Reserve Force Legal Officer and was awarded the Order of Military Merit. He left the regular force to start a second career as a lawyer in Manitoba practicing primarily in the field of civil litigation. He is a life bencher with the Law Society of Manitoba, was a hearing officer with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission and was appointed a Queen's Counsel. He and his wife Kathy now live in southwestern Ontario and in Florida. Allies: The Inquiry is the first book in a series of books which follow the lives of several special operations forces soldiers from the United States, Canada and other allied forces as they risk their lives fighting the Global War on Terror. Allies: The Bay introduces Chief Warrant Officer 2 Mark Winters of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command and his team of special agents who probe felony offences where the Army is, or may be, an interested party. With a Few Guns and Unsustainable at any Price are non fiction works looking at the Canadian Army. The former records the personal recollections of Canadian gunners in Afghanistan during the period 2002-2006 while the latter looks at ways to improve the current Canadian Army structure.