Former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz used the killing of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington, D.C.

So writes Ben Macintyre in “The Siege,” a book whose dust-jacket touts it as ... Most Americans today know about the capture of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. That takeover, by Islamist fanatics ...

one of the hostages at the Iranian Embassy in London, with an unidentified Iranian man talking with negotiators on the fifth day of the siege, May 4, 1980.Credit: AP Wirephoto Reading this book ...

In “Diplomats at War,” Charles Trueheart provides the most detailed account yet of Embassy Saigon’s angle in America’s 1963 decision to oust the Ngo regime. Mr. Trueheart’s father ...