The Purple Plain
American first edition
AuthorH. E. Bates
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreWar
PublisherMichael Joseph
Little, Brown (US)
Publication date
1947
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.

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.[1]

References

  1. Goble p.29

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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