I am going to sound completely ignorant but I only really studied 20th century European history. And never did history GCSE. I would like to understand the history of the war in Gaza but I struggle to read backgrounds on it as I don't really understand differences and relationships between Israel, Gaza, Palestine, Arabic and Jewish groups. For example is Israel the whole country (is it a country?) where its all going on?
Basically I need maps showing the whole history over time as I am a visual thinker. If I'm reading about X and x, if I can't visualise it, it doesn't work, as the next sentence relies on me to hold in my working memory what they said about the last group. I have ADHD so that's impossible, I don't have a working memory. It's especially hard if I have no previous knowledge of what I'm learning.
I'm then stuck on but what do you mean? Invariably they miss out stuff and make leaps between things so I'm left with more questions about what's missing and none the wiser. I can cope with ambiguity but I'd rather it just said yeah that part was controversial because of this but we sorted of ended up with this.
I sort of need to immerse myself in a book with a lot of pictures, or work through a book and draw myself a map alongside it. But never have time for that so just have no idea what's going on.
Anyone point me in the direction of info?