A look at the major events of the conflict during August 1917: August 1st The Vatican publishes a Peace Note from Pope Benedict XV suggesting an initiative on which a peace might be based. August 2nd General Lavr Kornilov succeeds General Brusilov as Russian Commander-in-Chief August 3rd Austrian-German forces recapture Czernowitz in Bukovina on the … More WWI: Fifty two months, fifty two posts – 37 – Another Month of War