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Achtung! Achtung! Which is of course German for Achtung Achtung!

Ah, I didn't seem right to use the original vernacular. You're welcome to we have ways to make you talk live.

This is not an April Fool, this is not a prank. The live stream is with us. Hello everyone, alongside the live stream.

Hello from Basingstoke, hello from Hairfield. People in South Africa, Australia, all over the world. Achtung from Sussex.

Glen Toulous says, nice beard. Well, I have to agree with Glen Toulous there.

This is like a podcast unlike any other. I hope you're all coping with isolation. It could be worse. You could be in a foxhole in Bastone.

Holding off an entire German pancreas division. Or you could be with Johnny Frost. As we can see James Holland has brought isolation.

The essential piece of kit, the essential piece of kit in the trouble times. What everyone needs is a well-walled to gas mask.

Apparently it is good for Covid 19. It's apparently so. You just like the rubber. Let's be honest.

That lovely, oh so special smell. It's not so bad. I mean, you know, in Netflix walking the dog listening to a podcast or two, isolation is tolerable isn't it? Let's say that.

It's even better if you're writing a book as well because that fills the day quite nicely.

Absolutely. Of course, James is in Wiltshire. You're in the middle of Sicily. We're talking about Sicily aren't we?

Yes, still very much. I've just been doing the amazing battle for Azorro, which is where the hasty piece, the hasty Prince Edward's battalion, managed to clamber up this sort of almost vertical cliff,

thousandth of a cliff in the middle of the night, attack the Germans from above and hold on throughout the day.

It's the most amazing action. It's completely impregnable this place. And although it had been a Greek, then a Roman, then a Byzantine, then an Arab, then a Norman strong point, it had never ever been captured from below.

Ever until the hasty piece got there.

Thank you. Good old Canadians. Volunteers are all.

Now, Pete Johnston has popped up on our feeds as a historian, a museum professional. Please, please do not put a World War Two casmasks as their full of obscenity.

That's you, Telt.

Okay. Well, yes, I'm putting that back in my, it's proper case then. I'd rather get coronavirus than a spedos in my lungs.

Here's a question. Let's get rolling. Here's a question to get us started from David Yeels. How prominent in battle were the Scottish pipers? And what did the Germans make of them?

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