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Legacy Press Books Classics

Legacy Books Press Classics is a new book line, dedicated to reprinting books of historical importance, either as primary sources or reference books.  Inaugurated with the first complete edition of Jomini's The Art of War since 1854, future titles will include Canon Scott's The Great War as I Saw It, and Franz Cumont's The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism.

All titles will also be available as free e-books for download from Legacy Books Press.

The Art of War

Restored Edition

By Baron Antoine Henri de Jomini

With a new introduction by John-Allen Price

372 pages

ISBN: 978-0-9784652-4-7

$29.95 Canada

$24.95 U.S.A.

£16.95 U.K.

€19.95 Europe

Until the First World War, the theory of war in Europe revolved around a rivalry between two thinkers – Carl von Clausewitz and Baron Antoine Henri de Jomini.  For most of the 19th century, Jomini’s The Art of War was considered the most important book written on the subject, and Jomini the leading expert on military theory.

Napoleon himself, upon reading some of Jomini’s early writings on war, is reported to have remarked, “It betrays to the enemy the whole of my system of war!”

The Art of War was translated into English twice.  The first time was in 1854.  The standard translation was published in 1862, but that translation was incomplete – the translators had excised Jomini’s introductory material, losing an important part of The Art of War, including key points in the rivalry between Jomini and Clausewitz.

For the first time in English since 1854, Legacy Books Press Classics presents Baron de Jomini’s The Art of War complete and restored, with the original front matter reinstated, and a new introduction by John-Allen Price.  Still influential even today, this is a key volume for understanding the art of war and the Age of Napoleon.

Now available from Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Japan.


The Great War as I Saw It

By Canon Frederick George Scott

With a new introduction by Aaron Miedema

304 pages

ISBN: 978-0-9784652-5-4

$29.95 Canada

$24.95 U.S.A.

It is said that Canada’s birth as a nation took place on the battlefields of the Western Front in World War I.  At places like Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele soldiers attacked from the trenches representing home provinces such as Quebec, Alberta, and Ontario, and returned as proud and triumphant Canadians.

Canon Frederick George Scott was a witness to the whole of this transformation.  A chaplain of the Canadian Corps from the beginning of the war to its end, Canon Scott’s account is a breathtaking and heartbreaking memoir of one of the greatest wars in history, the Canadians who fought in it, and the birth of a nation.

Now available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and Amazon.ca.