Frederick C. Schneid is a professor of history at High Point University. He received his PhD in European and military history at Purdue University. He is the author of Napoleon's Conquest of Europe: The War of the Third Coalition (2005); Napoleon's Italian Campaigns, 1805-1815 (2002); Soldiers of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy: Army, State and Society, 1800-1815 (1995); and Warfare in Europe, 1792-1815 (2007). He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

It is only in the past two decades that English-speaking scholars have fully breached European language barriers, permitting a comprehensive reexamination of the Napoleonic Wars beyond the limitations of English-, French-, and German-dependent works. This new volume in the Essential Bibliography Series examines the changing nature of Napoleonic historiography and provides the student and scholar an invaluable guide to those changes.