Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words can be transliterated several different ways when spelled using Roman characters, so try several ways of spelling people's names or other terms.
Authoritative full text collection of historical scholarship in several different subfields. Includes Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3
Oxford Bibliographies is a great place to start your research. It will help give you a general overview of the topic, and lots of helpful pointers for places to look next.
Encyclopedia of the Cold War
by
Ruud van Dijk (Editor); Svetlana Savranskaya (Editor); William Glenn Gray (Editor); Jeremi Suri (Editor); Qiang Zhai (Editor)
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Provides critical information on the most populous country and most dynamic trade market in the world: the people, politics, economics, religion, philosophy, traditions, art, and literature of this ancient and enduring civilization are explored from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day.
The Cambridge history of Japan: The Twentieth Century (volume 6)
by
Peter Duus (Editor)