Frederick Taylor, a former Wall Street Journal executive editor who spent more than 30 years at the paper and was known for fiercely defending journalism and his staffers, died Monday at age 87.

DRESDEN: Tuesday, February 13, 1945. By Frederick Taylor. HarperCollins, 528 pp. $26.95. IT was known as "the Florence of the Elbe." For more than 200 years artists and lovers of culture had been ...