Since ancient times, the horse has been humanity's closest partner. It was indispensable in agriculture, connected cities and countries, and decided wars. But then the centaur pact broke, and in just a century, the horse fell out of history, from which it had been inseparable for millennia. Ulrich Raulff tells the story of a farewell with fervor - the separation of man and horse. The exodus of the horse from human history is an astonishingly overlooked process. Entire libraries on the history of the 19th and 20th centuries remain silent about the horse, which was nevertheless omnipresent in Europe and America - until the last century of the horse during the time of Napoleon begins and fades with the First World War. In his new book, Ulrich Raulff draws on all registers of cultural and literary history and describes it with impressive narrative artistry.