Download or read book Fierce and Gentle Warriors written by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three stories from the Cossack country by the world-famous author of "And Quiet Flows the Don" and 1965 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. "The Colt" concerns a soldier and his tender feelings towards a horse newly born on the battlefield. "The Rascal" tells of a young boy who becomes a hero by acting as a military messenger. In "The Fate of a Man" an ex-prisoner of war has a moving encounter with a homeless waif. These straight-forward, exciting and unpretentious stories illustrate Sholokhov's desire, as he states it, ' ... to help people become better, nobler; I want to awaken man's love of man, his striving for humanistic ideals, for progress.'.