Sir Terence Clark was the British Ambassador to Iraq in 1985-89 and on his arrival in Baghdad was intrigued by the former Ottoman building in which the Embassy was situated. His search to discover its history led him to explore the wider ramifications of the British connection with Iraq from the days of the East India Company to the present.

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