"Killing Rommel" is vivid in its rendering of the difficulty, danger and terror facing a combat convoy when pushing into unfamiliar territory -- worse yet, when the charts are wrong and it is unknowable whether those headlights down the road or aircraft above are friend or enemy.
"We don't know whether it is face-to-face combat or an ambush," said Quam. "What we can definitely say is it is intentional".
(One study of Amazon skeletons with head wounds from battle-axes, Mayor reports, showed that "most of the blows were dealt by a right-handed opponent in face-to-face combat").
When enemies are in face-to-face combat, they're often blind to an obvious path to potential compromise.
To further satisfy television's demand for pictures, the producers have included brief re-creations of ancient battles, which seem a little corny at first, but actually do convey a sense of the gory flesh-and-bone intimacy of face-to-face combat.
The action these days is rarely about face-to-face combat.
There's no actual sweaty, bloody, face-to-face combat situations.
Some 70,000 Union soldiers and 50,000 Confederates engaged in excruciating face-to-face combat.
The theory is that though she can't beat him for inspiration she can grind him down in face-to-face combat, and there is no doubt that she is the better debater.
After Pearl Harbor, hundreds of thousands of American men volunteered to kill and did kill hundreds of thousands of Japanese, often in face-to-face combat, by brutal methods that included bayonets and flamethrowers.
