Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov was one of the most outstanding writers of Russian Soviet literature, a Nobel Prize laureate, and the author of the novels 'Quiet Flows the Don' and 'Virgin Soil Upturned.' This edition includes the author's works dedicated to the Great Patriotic War: 'They Fought for Their Country,' 'The Fate of Man,' 'The Science of Hatred,' and 'Wartime Essays'—perhaps the most poignant, vivid, tragic, and, at the same time, life-affirming texts written on the theme of war, not only in Russian but also in world literature.