Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death―what he calls the thanatographic imagination―in North Korea, the United States, and South Korea energize ideas about history, the present, and the future. What meanings are attached to deaths in a so-called “limited war” that turned out to be limitless? What does the 1953 armistice reveal about the nature of war itself in the post-1945 era? Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War shows how literary texts, films, nonfiction, and other forms of cultural production from the late 1940s to the 1960s give rise to revolutionary belongings, gendered selfhoods, and anticommunist cosmopolitanisms as they address an incommensurate loss of life in war and multiple forms of postarmistice violence.