Down East Books
Pages: 180
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-60893-263-4 • Paperback • June 2014 • $15.95 • (£11.99)
978-1-60893-264-1 • eBook • May 2014 • $9.99 • (£7.99)
Morgan Rielly is a high-school senior from Westbrook, Maine, with a passion for history and stories. This is his first book.
Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons From Maine's Greatest Generation is among the most impressive works of [the World War II and Vietnam War era veteran] genre that I have had the good fortune to read. . . .Each statement is well worth reading, for each says much about American attitudinal history.
— Maine Sunday Telegram
This is one terrific book. This high school senior is an extraordinary young man, with a real sense for a good story. . . .He read an old African Proverb, 'When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.'. . . .But thanks to Morgan Rielly, Bernard Cheney's 'library,' like the libraries of the 24 other veterans whose astonishing and inspiring stories are told here, will never be lost.
— GeorgeSmithMaine.com