That's really convoluted... You have to redefine
the title to adhere
to the GFDL. You then consider a separate sub-page to be the "most
prominent appearance of the work's title, preceding the beginning of
the body of the text". That's not bending the license any more. That's
breaking it.
That quote is only for works without a separate title page. If we
define the history page to be the title page, then it doesn't matter
where it is. Anyway, it's the only appearance of the work's title
under this definition of title, so it must be the most prominent.
So we've broken the license and glued it back together in a different
order - it'll do.