2018 GOLD MEDAL WINNER (MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA)

This award-winning Vietnam War memoir from an Air Force flight surgeon is a superb, first-hand account of combat flying (Dan Hampton, New York Times-bestselling author of Viper Pilot)

In 1971, United States Air Force flight surgeon John Pendergrass spent much of his time in the backseat of an F-4 Phantom, racing across the skies of Vietnam.

Forty-five years later, he boards an altogether different type of aircraft and heads back to Vietnam for an altogether different kind of race-an IRONMAN triathlon.

A veteran of IRONMAN triathlons on six continents,Racing Back to Vietnamfollows John’s year in combat and his return to Vietnam, revisiting a country that, for him, is bound up in history, memory and emotion. A memoir of war as seen from the skies and a reflection on life’s high adventure, John tries to reconcile the Vietnam he saw from the backseat of a fighter jet with today’s modern Vietnam.

Thought-provoking, heartfelt and gripping,Racing Back to Vietnamis one man’s trip back through time on a journey of rediscovery.