Mark Zuehlke is an award-winning author generally considered to be Canada’s foremost popular military historian. His Canadian Battle Series is the most exhaustive recounting of the battles and campaigns fought by any nation during World War II to have been written by a single author. In recognition of his contribution to popularizing Canadian history, Mark was awarded the 2014 Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media: The Pierre Berton Award. In 2007, his For Honour’s Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace won the Canadian Author’s Association Lela Common Award for Canadian History. The Canadian Battle Series Holding Juno captured the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize in 2006.

​Mark is also an award winning mystery writer, whose popular Elias McCann series has garnered much critical praise in Canada and abroad. Set in storm-swept west Vancouver Island village of Tofino, the series follows the reluctant community coroner Elias McCann. Hands Like Clouds, the debut in this series, won the Crime Writer’s of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for the 2000 Best First Novel and the third instalment, Sweep Lotus, was nominated for the 2004 Arthur Ellis Best Novel.

​When not writing, this Victoria, British Columbia resident can often be found tinkering around the Fernwood heritage house he shares with partner and fellow writer Frances Backhouse. He enjoys hiking, backpacking, cycling, kayaking, travelling, and cooking.

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.