The Purple Plain

American first edition
Author	H. E. Bates
Language	English
Genre	War
Publisher	Michael Joseph Little, Brown (US)
Publication date	1947
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

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]

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

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