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]