For one reason or another, no matter howglorious their records, Democrats have often found it hard to persuade voters that they can make good war presidents.
Almost five minutes long, this ILM-produced video shows us the nuts and bolts (and other pieces of machinery), the ins and outs (and extreme zooms), and the black and white (in glorious color) of how The Avengers was put together.
Mr Marozzi has traced in person much of Temur's relentless campaign trail, and he elegiacally shows us how far Samarkand and Bukhara, once the most glorious cities in Asia, have descended.