When History Went Mad: 13 True-ish Tales of Assassins, Odd Inventions & the Dark Mysteries in Archives

By Tommy Reddicks

History isn't written by the victors-it's written by the survivors, the liars, and the lunatics who kept better notes.
Within these thirteen chronicles, truth and absurdity hold hands and refuse to let go.
A German bicycle battalion pedals into legend on the flooded banks of the Danube.
A Silicon Valley engineer rides an executive chair into viral infamy.
A Whole Foods demonstration ends with a man glowing from the inside out.
A Soviet weightlifter discovers her father may have been more forest than man.
And somewhere in England, the bear that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh drags a century of grief and commerce through honey and myth.
Each story begins with a verifiable fact-an obituary, a photograph, a military order, a footnote-and unspools into something that might actually be true. It's Ripley's Believe It or Not meeting The X-Files, all told with the humor of a historian who's had just enough coffee to connect dots no sane person would.
Meticulously researched, darkly funny, and disturbingly plausible, When History Went Mad invites you to solve a single question:

If everything here is documented, what exactly counts as fiction?

Half true. Entirely believable.

Welcome to the archives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G253M2XQ
• ISBN13: 9798273803633
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"