shortest way

• They felt the only way that you could defeat Germany was to take the shortest way into the centre of Germany, across the Channel, and advance into the areas of the Ruhr and Saar, the great industrial areas,
  فقـد كانـوا يظنـون أن الطريـق ...الوحيد المؤدى لهزيمة الألمان كان سلوك أقصر الطرق نحو... قلب (ألمانيا) عبر القنال الأنجليزى