The Purple Plain
American first edition
Author	H. E. Bates
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	War
Publisher	Michael Joseph Little, Brown (US)
Publication date	1947
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.

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

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

v t e H. E. Bates
Books written	The Two Sisters (1926) My Uncle Silas (1939) Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944) The Cruise of the Breadwinner (1946) The Purple Plain (1947) Love for Lydia (1952) A Moment in Time (1964) The Triple Echo (1970)
The Larkins book series	The Darling Buds of May (1958) A Breath of French Air (1959) When the Green Woods Laugh (1960) Oh! To be in England (1963) A Little of What You Fancy (1970)
Illustrators	Edward Ardizzone Lynton Lamb John Nash (artist) John Minton (artist) Agnes Miller Parker Randolph Schwabe Charles Tunnicliffe John Stanton Ward James Broom-Lynne Carol Barker
TV series	Country Matters (1972) Love for Lydia (1977) A Moment in Time (1979) Fair Stood the Wind for France (1980) The Darling Buds of May (1991) My Uncle Silas (2001) The Larkins (2021)
Film dramatisations	The Purple Plain (1953) The Mating Game (1959) Dulcima (1971) The Triple Echo (1972) A Month by the Lake (1995) Feast of July (1995)
Bates family	Jonathan Bates Victoria Wicks