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Offered here is this wonderful Vintage First Edition of The Purple Plain, by H. E. Bates. The book is in good condition. There are a few of stains on the cover. The outer spine is a little faded, and a little bent at the top and bottom edges of the spine. The spine and binding are holding well, but they are beginning to loosen. All of the 308 pages are intact and in good condition, although they are yellowing with age. This book is a first edition published by Little, Brown & Company, with a copyright date of 1947. I am unsure if it is a first printing, but I believe that it is. It is a very nice vintage novel.
Bill Forrester, a RCAF pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma, flying de Havilland Mosquitos, a two-seat fighter-bomber. Forrester is emotionally distraught after losing his new wife in the ‘’Blitz’’ in London and has become self-destructive, seeking to end his life in action. "You'd think that would be easy in a war", he explains to a Burmese woman, Anna, "but I just kept getting medals instead." With Anna's support, Bill begins to recover his emotional stability.
Forrester and his new navigator, Carrington, on a routine non-combat flight to Myitkyina, with Flight Lieutenant Blore as passenger in the Mosquito's bomb bay, because of an engine fire, is forced to go down in a remote desert area of Burma's central plain controlled by the Japanese. As the three men struggle to survive in the hostile environment, the self-destructive Bill finally realises that he can depend on support from others and that he may have someone to live for. Blore, however, abandons them to attempt to return to the crash site and commits suicide.
Bill Forrester, a RCAF pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma, flying de Havilland Mosquitos, a two-seat fighter-bomber. Forrester is emotionally distraught after losing his new wife in the ‘’Blitz’’ in London and has become self-destructive, seeking to end his life in action. "You'd think that would be easy in a war", he explains to a Burmese woman, Anna, "but I just kept getting medals instead." With Anna's support, Bill begins to recover his emotional stability.
Forrester and his new navigator, Carrington, on a routine non-combat flight to Myitkyina, with Flight Lieutenant Blore as passenger in the Mosquito's bomb bay, because of an engine fire, is forced to go down in a remote desert area of Burma's central plain controlled by the Japanese. As the three men struggle to survive in the hostile environment, the self-destructive Bill finally realises that he can depend on support from others and that he may have someone to live for. Blore, however, abandons them to attempt to return to the crash site and commits suicide.
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