Frederick C. Schneid is Herman and Louise Smith Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at High Point University, USA. He is the author of several books, including The Second War of Italian Unification (Osprey, 2012), The Napoleonic Wars (2012) and Napoleon's Italian Campaigns, 1805-1815 (2002). He is also the editor of numerous books, such as European Politics 1815-1848 (2011) and European Warfare, 1792-1815 (2007). He is a series editor for the award-winning History of Warfare book series, and on the editorial advisory board of the award-winning, Campaigns & Commanders book series.