Jason Ridler
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Jason S. Ridler is a writer, historian, and biographer. His monograph on Dr. Omond Solandt was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2015.
A former punk rock musician and cemetery groundskeeper, Ridler holds a Ph.D. in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of numerous novels, including Death Match, the first Spar Battersea thriller; Knockouts: Ten Tales of Fantasy and Noir; and more than 50 stories in such magazines and anthologies as Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Brain Harvest, Chilling Tales, and more.
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Battle of Mons, engagement fought on the last day of World War I—November 11, 1918—in which Canadian forces captured the Belgian town of Mons, liberating an area that had been under German occupation since 1914. The Allied success at the Battle of Amiens (August 8–11, 1918) led to an aggressive…
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Maestro of Science: Omond McKillop Solandt and Government Science in War and Hostile Peace, 1939-1956 (October 2015)
One of the brightest Canadian scientists of his generation, Omond McKillop Solandt was a physiologist by training, an engineer by disposition, and a manager by necessity. A protégé of insulin’s co-discoverer, Charles Best, Solandt worked as a scientist for the British government during the Second World War, including as a pioneer of operational research and a manager of scientific establishments. Ending the war as a colonel, he served on the British Mission to Japan, where he studied the effects...
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