Few characters have provoked as much analysis as Adolf Hitler , yet more than 50 years after his death, his actions remain surrounded by dispute and ambiguity. In his new book, Explaining Hitler, leading American journalist Ron Rosenbaum explores this unsettled and unsettling moral debate. Richard Coles discusses his account of the search for the origin of evil. He also reassesses Dostoyevsky's prophetic novel The Possessed as the Maly Drama Theatre of St
Petersburg bring their epic adaptation to London. Bill Buford of the New Yorker delivers his weekly letter from the US. Producer Abigail Appleton