{"product_id":"racing-back-to-vietnam-9781578266999","title":"Racing Back to Vietnam","description":"\u003cb\u003e2018 GOLD MEDAL WINNER (MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA)\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis award-winning Vietnam War memoir from an Air Force flight surgeon is “a superb, first-hand account of combat flying” (Dan Hampton, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eViper Pilot\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A veteran of IRONMAN triathlons on six continents, \u003ci\u003eRacing Back to Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e follows 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Thought-provoking, heartfelt and gripping, \u003ci\u003eRacing Back to Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e is one man’s trip back through time on a journey of rediscovery.","brand":"Hatherleigh Press","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62291439878531,"sku":"9781578266999","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/racing-back-to-vietnam-9781578266999","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}