Publisher's Synopsis
The deeply moving account of an against-all-odds reunion. Four days after Germany's surrender in May 1945, a young British officer named Freddy Gray takes a Jeep and heads East from the Netherlands into Germany. But this is no ordinary English soldier. Freddy's real name is Manfred, and he is travelling across what remains of his former homeland with one objective: to rescue his parents from a concentration camp. As a boy Manfred was forced to flee the Holocaust, leaving his parents behind. As soon as he could he signed up to fight, serving in an elite British unit made up of German native speakers and joining the legendary British "Three Troop" in the D-Day Normandy landings. Now, seven years after escaping from Nazi Germany, Manfred begins a relentless hunt for his lost family. He begins by helping to liberate his hometown, where his former home has been taken over by Nazis and the basement repurposed as a torture chamber. Then he travels through streams of refugees, overcomes Soviet military roadblocks, and crosses no-man's land before reaching his ultimate destination: Theresienstadt, the concentration camp where his parents were last seen. There, incredibly, Manfred discovered his parents still alive. I Will Come Back for You tells his remarkable story.
