The Purple Plain
by H.E. Bates
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A wartime novel set in the central plain of Burma towards the end of the Second World War, where a depleted RAF squadron of Mosquitoes is based.Tags
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Bates provides a view of a WW II war zone I know little about. It would appear there is less literature about it. Thus I found this of interest mainly because he gave me a sense of what it would have been like to fly planes in the jungle of Burma. He also presents what I assume is an actuate picture of how the native population felt about these intruders, both Japanese & British.
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- Original publication date
- 1947
- Important places
- Burma
- Related movies
- The Purple Plain (1954 | IMDb)
- First words
- Shy flocks of small banana-green parrots had befun to come back to the pipal trees about the bombed pagoda.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Outside, the plain was purple in the falling dusk, and the long day was over.
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.29)
- Languages
- English, Hungarian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 14
- ASINs
- 19
