War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars--or more precisely the memories of war--of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victim's death as well as the end of the world as such that each death signifies. Marc Cr?pon's The Thought of Death and the Memory of War is a call to resist such images in which death is no longer actual death since...