Napoleon�s Italian Campaigns, 1805-1815, by Frederick C. Schneid

Westport, Ct.: Praeger, 2002. xviii, 228. Maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $64.95. ISBN:0-275-96875-8.

In contrast to most treatments of Napoleon�s career, which rarely deal with events in which he himself was not personally in command, Napoleon�s Italian Campaigns, deals with military events in a theater that, after 1801, saw no operations by the �Corsican Ogre.� The author thus literally �rescues� from virtual oblivion the long neglected events in Italy, where several major campaigns occurred. Prof. Schneid treats the 1805, 1809, and 1813-1814 campaigns against Austria, and the Conquest of Naples, 1805-1806, and the subsequent guerrilla war that left that kingdom unsettled throughout the period, as well as Murat�s quixotic bid for domination of the Peninsula in 1815. Beyond question the most complete one volume treatment of the Napoleonic era in Italy.

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