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The Purple Plain (novel)

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1947 novel
The Purple Plain
American first edition
AuthorH. E. Bates
LanguageEnglish
GenreWar
PublisherMichael Joseph
Little, Brown (US)
Publication date1947
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Purple Plain is a 1947 war novel by the British writer H. E. Bates. It is set during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.

Synopsis

The novel's prose is straight-forwardly direct and presents a vivid and harrowing account of human determination to survive in the face of a merciless natural world.

Film adaptation

In 1954, it was adapted into a British film The Purple Plain directed by Robert Parrish and starring Gregory Peck, Win Min Than and Bernard Lee.

References

  1. Goble p.29

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
H. E. Bates
Books written
The Larkins book series
Illustrators
TV series
Film dramatisations
Bates family


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