title: To the setting of the sun: The story of York
author:  Georg R Sheets 
description: From front flap: &quot;Pride in past achievements has been a guiding beacon to Yorkers in forging the community&apos;s future.&quot; writes Georg Sheets (in this book). Those achievements now stretch over 300 years, encompassing important roles in the American Revolution and all subsequent wars; a diversified business community that has provided steady prosperity, capable of withstanding financial panics and depressions; and an extraordinary number of distinguished craftsmen, inventors, industrialists, artisans, and artists who have made contributions not only to York county, to to America as a whole and to the world.
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  **The**
  
  
  **BATTLE**
  
  
  **of the**
  
  
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  _Also by Jeanette Winterson_  
    
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  **The**
  
  
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  Bloomsbury Publishing, London, Berlin and New York
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in Great Britain in November 2009 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc  
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  This electronic edition published in December 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing
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  © Jeanette Winterson 2009  
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