re: Any good history books about Germanic Tribes?

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Not a book but Dan Carlin's excellent Hardcore History podcasts touches on the Germanic tribes in form of Thor's Angles. Most of your "history" will come from the Romans since the tribes didn't record history themselves. One of the really interesting things about the germanic tribes is the fact that the Francs were a germanic tribe. They moved into France when the Romans moved out. Pippin the Short and Charlemagne (more correctly called Karl der Grosse) were essentially Germans.

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Kinda sorta.

The Franks had inter-mixed with the native Gauls/Celts pretty thoroughly (even at the noble level) by the time Pepin and Charlemagne came around.

Martel (and, hence, Pepin and Charlemagne) likely had at least some Gaulish ancestry. It was a muddy mixture of that point of Gauls (who still outnumbered the various Germanic tribes by many times and whose dux still held a great deal of sway), Franks, Burgundians, Visigoths, etc., etc.