Alan Furst is closing in on Upton Sinclair. Between 1940 and 1953, Sinclair, acclaimed author of The Jungle, created a series of 11 “World’s End” novels that captured much of the Western world’s political history in the first half of the 20th century. For 20 years now, Furst has been turning out his own series of novels filled with international intrigue. Furst’s books are set in Europe before and during World War II, and his latest effort, The Spies of Warsaw (Random House), is the 10th novel in the series. Like its predecessors, Spies of Warsaw is highly enjoyable, particularly in the author’s remarkable ability to evoke a vanished era.

Former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter was one of the key voices of opposition against President Bush’s claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and in the years since the long war in Iraq began, Ritter’s criticisms of Bush’s foreign policy have only grown harsher. Tonight he delivers a 7 . . .

Leave it to our reliable friends in U2 to respond to the music industry's structural implosion with a triple-shot of pricey extravagance-and the promise of more to come. Who could have foreseen that the guitar wailing of "I Will Follow" from the band's 1980 debut, Boy, was actually the first breath of a larger-than-life juggernaut. To be fair, even when listening with the benefit of knowing...

Museum work can be dangerous business. Just ask the staff of the Baghdad Museum, looted as U.S. troops looked on, or the National Museum in Kabul, whose curators had to conceal their collection from the Soviets and the Taliban. Hidden Treasures is the catalog to an exhibit traveling across the United States, a dazzling...

The outpouring of tens of thousands of classified military documents by WikiLeaks is not precisely comparable to the publication of the Pentagon Papers—but in at least one crucial respect, it may be more valuable. While the Pentagon Papers revealed the duplicity of American policy-makers in the senseless Vietnam War, their release came too late to save many lives or change the course of that...

When President Obama disparaged "loose talk about war" against the theocratic regime in Tehran...

For everyone who originally supported the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to oust the Taliban...

When George W. Bush made his first public appearance in many months to discuss economic policy...

Part of the resonance of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ latest project for PBS, “The War,” is the eternal paradox of armed conflict. “War brings out the very best and very worst of us,” Burns says, “and we are drawn t