These two remarkable books push the study of Peru’s internal armed conflict (1980–2000) in new directions. They move away from the concentration on the Shining Path leadership and urban Lima and Ayacucho to examine the rise and fall of support for the guerrillas in the countryside or smaller cities such as Huancavelica. In temporal terms, they demonstrate the need to begin the analysis well before the outbreak of the insurgency in 1980 and to address the conflict’s deeply painful and complex legacies today. They contribute to numerous theoretical and methodological debates and deserve a wide readership.