He wrote several books on the military and foreign policy, including on Kitchener and Churchill.
[2] Germains was born in the Fulham district of London, the son of inventor Aaron Simon "Adolph" Zalkin Germains, a Jewish emigrant from the Russian Empire.
[5][6] During World War I, Germains served as a spy in Austria.
[8] As a military writer, Germains was classed by Michael Howard with Bernard Acworth and Lionel Charlton as a lesser figure typical of his time.
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