They Fought for Their Country

Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov 1905—1984 — one of the most significant writers of Russian Soviet literature, recipient of the Nobel Prize. This book includes his military-patriotic stories "The Science of Hatred" and "The Fate of a Man", as well as chapters from the novel "They Fought for Their Country". As a war correspondent during the Great Patriotic War, Sholokhov gathered material from direct participants in the events and relied on his own impressions. This allowed him to raise the most difficult questions in the pages of his works — about the inevitability of hatred towards a savage enemy, yet the preservation of humanity in general, about the manifestation of strength of spirit and heroism among ordinary people who faced severe trials, privations, and losses.