

This novel, Bate's seventh, was a turning point in his career in three respects: his professional contacts and status, his popularity and financial rewards, and lastly, his literary focus and subject matter. The book was followed by three other war novels ( The Purple Plain, The Jacaranda Tree, and The Scarlet Sword), all set in Asia.

Bates: A Selection of Novels and Short Stories, and Fair Stood the Wind for France with Two Short Stories. It was included in Country and Other Matters, The Best of H.E. The novel was serialized weekly in the Saturday Evening Post from March 18 to May 6, 1944, in Woman's Journal (May-July 1944), and later reprinted in Complete Bestsellers (1982, v.

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