Lee Miller reached Omaha Beach on 12 August 1944 and arrived in Saint-Malo the following day, assigned to report on Civil Affairs. Instead, she encountered a city under siege. *Saint-Malo assiégée. Août 1944* gathers her photographs and writing from the violent campaign that ended with the city’s liberation, concentrating on one sharply defined episode rather than offering a broad retrospective of her wartime career.

Working with a Rolleiflex and a 1939 tourist-office map, Miller was the only photo-reporter covering the fighting there. Her account moves between military action and civilian experience: refugees, assistance to residents, the devastated old city, the final assault on the citadel of Alet, its bombardment with napalm, and the German surrender. This proximity gives the work its particular force. The photographs do not treat destruction as an abstract spectacle; they place damaged architecture, displaced people, and unfolding combat within the same field of attention.

Miller’s dual role as photographer and writer is central to the book. Her reportage was only partly permitted to appear in *Vogue* at the time, making its presentation here especially significant as a more complete encounter with her record of Saint-Malo. Text and image together reveal the practical conditions of reporting from a besieged city as well as the ethical complexity of observing events while also helping civilians.

Published by Hazan in 2024, this French-language, 128-page hardcover deserves attention for the precision of its historical focus. For collectors of war photography, documentary practice, or Miller’s work, its importance lies not in claims of rarity but in the coherence of the surviving reportage: a sustained eyewitness account made by the sole photojournalist present, linking battlefield events to the lives and fabric of the city around them.