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.Goble p.29
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.