I'm pretty sure the only time Germany gets mentioned in American schools is a Nazi reference.

Anyway. I'm biased. This sounds like a great book, and I think the American Revolution is genuinely one of the most fascinating chapters in World History. If you're into learning more, you couldn't pick a better starting place than the 'John Adams' miniseries HBO produced a couple of years ago.

And I'm curious what your reviews of that series would end up sounding like - John Adams tends to be one of the lesser Founders, in part because he lacked the charisma to cover up his flaws that Washington, Franklin and Jefferson had in spades. He's undergone a bit of a restoration in the last few decades, in part because of biography by David McCullough (of which the HBO series is an adaption) and in part because of Abigail Adams' resurrection as feminist icon.

Also, I am REALLY curious to know what 'National Treasure' the B-action heist flick with Nic Cage sounds like to you, since the entire shtick to that film is that the clues are odd bits of American Revolution trivia, so that the American audience goes 'OH of course, X item is there.' It must be mindblowingly incomprehensible to foreign audiences.