Book Review : The Purple Plain
The book is set in the Burma of 1945, the Japanese are meant to be in retreat, but they’re still firmly in the minds of the local population who are worried their enemy will return. Squadron Leader Forrester is the commander at an air station on the “purple plain” of Burma, but gradually loses the will to live once he hears his young wife has been killed in the London Blitz. However, he meets a…















