The Grove 125. A Chronicle of the Trench Battles of 1918 is still regarded today as an autobiographical work by Ernst Jünger, in which he portrays the events surrounding the positions at Grove 125 in a selective and exemplary manner. An episode already described in Storm of Steel – Jünger’s world-famous book about his experiences in World War I – has been developed here into an independent chronicle of the entrenched warfare on the Western Front in the last year of the war. However, a closer look reveals that The Grove 125 is much more than a descriptive chronicle. Based on Jünger’s nearly daily diary entries, historian Rüdiger Schönrade first paints an authentic and as unaltered as possible picture of the experiences of a young officer in trench warfare at the Somme at the end of World War I. Against this militarily precise background, the present study examines the later literary elaborations of Ernst Jünger: initially, there are the various versions of this episode in Storm of Steel, as well as the different editions of The Grove 125. By comparing Jünger’s literary adaptations with the original diary entries, but especially with Jünger’s situational sketches and military maps, the author succeeds in precisely demonstrating how Jünger used only individual building blocks from the diary entries to create an independent literary work that represents a nationalistically charged processing of the war experiences of an entire generation.