Since time immemorial the horse has been man's closest partner. It was indispensable in agriculture, connected cities and countries, decided the wars. But then the Centaurian pact broke, and in just one century the horse fell out of history, which for thousands of years could not be imagined without it. Ulrich Raulff furiously tells the story of a farewell - the separation of man and horse. The exodus of the horse from human history is a surprisingly unnoticed 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 in the time of Napoleon and ended with the First World War. In his new book, Ulrich Raulff pulls out all the stops in the history of culture and literature and describes with impressive Er.