Introduction



The vast majority of British colonial officials working
Iraq since the initial invasion of the country in 1914 until its accession to the
League of Nations in 1932, were stationed in a region of the world whose
they knew virtually nothing. At the printing of cultural incoherence
Geographic and that was theirs was added during the period between the wars,
profound transformation of the international system in which the State
British operated. The British had to give up and attach
Basra to the Empire. In return, they engaged in a fight that
lasted twelve years to build Iraq a modern state able to preside
its own destiny under a mandate from the League of Nations 1.