The Purple Plain

Author: H.E. Bates

Second World War fiction

Published on 18 May 2006 by Methuen Publishing Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 340 pages
197 x 130 x 16 | 310g

Full of mounting suspense and masterly characterisation, Bates's popular wartime novel tells the story of three very different men who, after their aircraft crashes, are forced to trek across the Burmese wilderness to safety. It is reissued by Methuen along with 'The Jacaranda Tree' and 'The Purple Plain' and to coincide with the re-publication in one volume of Bates' acclaimed autobiographies - 'The Vanished World', 'The Blossoming World' and 'World in Ripeness'.