Frederick Schiller 
History of the Revolt in the Netherlands 

The prequel to the American Revolution. This struggle for political and religious freedom inspired America’s Founding Fathers. Schiller tells the tale with a novelist’s insight into character. According to Wikipedia: ’Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 – 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last few years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with whom he greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics, encouraging Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches; this thereby gave way to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism.’