Munthe was also instrumental in the rescue of liberal philosopher Benedetto Croce and his family, held captive in Sorrento, and their flight to Capri where his father Axel Munthe's house Villa San Michele provided shelter.
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Later recruited to the Special Operations Executive, he worked behind enemy lines in occupied Scandinavia - both in Norway and Sweden - as a spy and saboteur, famously blowing up a Nazi munitions train some 70 miles from his own family home in Leksand, Dalarna.
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During the Second World War Southside House was damaged by German bombs, and Malcolm Munthe spent much of his later life restoring the house and another family property, Hellens to pristine historic condition.