| The Purple Plain | |
| Author: | H. E. Bates |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | War |
| Publisher: | Michael Joseph Little, Brown (US) |
| Release Date: | 1947 |
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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.
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.
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]