Against the Wind

Memoirs of a German Immigrant and an American ER Doctor

Horst Freyhofer, Sue Freyhofer

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Transatlantic Books
30 September 2025

Biography: historical, political & military; European history; Family history, tracing ancestors

The story of a family forged by history, held together by love, and driven by a fierce determination to survive

Horst Freyhofer was born in 1938 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and survived the Allied bombings that reduced his city to near rubble. In 1963 he came to the Unites States in search of a better life.

Sue was born in 1944 in Bauxite, Arkansas, a small mining town still reeling from the Great Depression. An ocean away from Horst's upbringing, her life followed a different path-one filled with her own struggles, joys, and hardships as a young single mother.

When Horst and Sue met in 1973 at UCLA during a time of political upheaval and societal change, they found in each other a shared resilience and a quiet defiance of the hands they'd been dealt. Together, they determined to make a better future for themselves and build a new family: one rooted in compassion and perseverance and secured with an unshakable bond.

Against the Wind is the powerful autobiography of two determined people whose struggles span the globe from post-WWII Europe and small-town America to the tumult of Vietnam-era protests in California, to years of living in Mexico, marriage in Arkansas, and, eventually, finding a place for their family to grow and thrive in New England. This is a story of survival, ambition, change, and the enduring strength of love.

By: Horst Freyhofer, Sue Freyhofer
Imprint: Transatlantic Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 508g
ISBN: 9798218711979
Pages: 382
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Horst Freyhofer was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. Eventually Horst immigrated to the US, where he received a PhD in intellectual history from UCLA under the tutelage of one of America's leading thinkers, Hayden White. Horst has held various professorships in the US, including visiting professor at Middlebury College in Vermont. Before his retirement in 2006, he was a full professor at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. Sue Freyhofer was born in Arkansas and holds an MD from the University of Arkansas. Before retiring in 2013, she held the position of medical director at the Moses Ludington Hospital in Ticonderoga, NY.