NEWS & EVENTS

Professor Frederick Schneid Publishes His Third Book on Napoleon (June 2005). Napoleon's Conquest of Europe (Praeger: 2005) follows Napoleon’s Italian Campaigns (Praeger: 2002) and Soldiers of Napoleon’s Kingdom of Italy (Westview: 1995). Dr. Schneid's latest book examines how, in less than one hundred days in 1805, Napoleon overcame a formidable coalition of European powers to march from the English Channel to Central Europe. Schneid shows that Napoleon's crushing victory over the Third Coalition was the product of years of diplomatic preparation and the formation of French alliances. Napoleon played upon the prevailing conditions of the European state system and the internal politics of the Holy Roman Empire to improve France's strategic position.

Dennis Showalter, Professor of History at Colorado College and author of The Wars of Frederick the Great and Tannenberg: Clash of Empires has written that Schneid's latest book "increases his stature among the rising generation of U.S. historians of the Napoleonic Wars." Napoleon's Conquest of Europe, "smoothly integrates policy formation, diplomatic interaction, and military operations in a work meriting recognition as a standard introduction to the war that made Napoleon master of Europe."