James M Cain’s hard-bitten novella gained bleak power on screen but this version, giving Mischa Barton her UK stage debut, loses its flinty edge The West End’s woeful High Noon showed how hard it is ...

BERLIN—A dozen senior German officers convened at a triangle-shaped military compound in Berlin about 2½ years ago to work on a secret plan for a war with Russia. Now they’re racing to implement it.

For the caller, it can feel boring and repetitive—maybe even demoralizing. And for the person being called, it often feels like a total nuisance. But it doesn’t have to be that way. By focusing on the ...