Poland's Second World War produced more than its fair share of stories that sound made up. There's a bear who hauled artillery shells at Monte Cassino, and then there's Krystyna Skarbek, a countess from Warsaw who skied across a mountain range with intelligence hidden in her glove linings, talked a Gestapo officer into freeing three condemned prisoners, and remains, decades on, the longest-serving female agent Britain's wartime secret service ever fielded. She went by several

Black-and-white group posing with a Tamla-Motown UK Tour banner listing The Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Martha and the Vandellas.

In 1979, apprentice embalmer Karen Greenlee stole a hearse, the body inside it, and confessed to years of necrophilia in a letter meant to be her suicide note.