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Dunsterville’s writings reveal a sense of the surreal nature of the campaign. His remark that “you cannot make this stuff up” captures the bizarre reality: a British general sailing under a Serbian flag aboard a ship named after a South African Boer president, helping Armenians against Turks in revolutionary Russia.
His reflections starkly contrast the chaos on the ground with the lofty ambitions of allied strategic interests. He notes the difficulty of establishing order amid revolutionary upheaval, criticizing the endless committees and conflicting agendas that hampered effective action.