First World War
During the First World War, Munthe became a British citizen and served in an ambulance corps. He wrote the book Red Cross, Iron Cross about his wartime experiences.
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“Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use,
Did after him the World seduce:
And from the fields the Flow’rs and Plants allure,”
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