This annotated bibliography consists of monographs and periodical articles; it does not include newspapers, Peruvians or U.S. While a great deal of good reporting on the war has come from such sources, problems with dependable access to complete runs of peruvian paper made me decide to forgo any newspaper stories.

The first items in the bibliography are some obscure pamphlets by a dogmatic splinter faction of the Peruvian Communist Party. It continues with the first mention I found of Shining Path in a small, leftist Peruvian weekly in the fall of 1980; it ends with a series of articles published in the leading Peruvian human rights journal in december, 1993 speculating on the significance of Abimael Guzmán´s offer to negociate with the government of Alberto Fujimoi after thirteen years of bloodshed and horror.

The books and magazine articles come from a myriad os sources. Principally, the books are those classified under the subject headings “Sendero Luminoso” or “Terrorism-Perú” in the bibliographic databases RLIN and OCLC. The journal articles come mainly from social science indexes, such as PAIS, Social Sciences Index, Reader´s Guide and the Hispanic American Periodicals Index.