DRAGON LADY: The True Story of the Lockheed U-2 Missions That Nearly Started World War III: THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD (Secret Files)
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
Series: Book 9 of 58 - Secret Files
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- Title
- DRAGON LADY: The True Story of the Lockheed U-2 Missions That Nearly Started World War III: THE LONELIEST MAN IN THE WORLD (Secret Files)
- Author
- Bryce, Michael I.
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798192782170
- Series
- Book 9 of 58: Secret Files
Where flying too slow means falling. Flying too fast means exploding.
In 1955, Lockheed's Skunk Works built — and secretly tested at the remote desert base known as Area 51 — the most fragile, dangerous, and vital aircraft in aviation history: the U-2 Dragon Lady.
Designed by engineering genius Kelly Johnson, it was a powered glider stripped of armor, guns, and ejection seats — forced to fly in the lethal "coffin corner" at 70,000 feet, where a speed error of just six knots meant instant destruction.
The Loneliest Man in the World: DRAGON LADY is the definitive true story of the Lockheed U-2 missions that nearly started World War III.
Through meticulous documentary discipline and declassified intelligence, author Michael I. Bryce takes you directly inside the cockpit of the Dragon Lady:
• The Lethal Coffin Corner: Experience the extreme physical and psychological toll of flying alone at the edge of space in a pressure suit, living on liquid food and pure oxygen for eleven hours at a time.
• The "Sheep-Dipped" Pilots: Discover the secret process by which elite military aviators surrendered their identities to fly covert CIA missions under deep civilian cover.
• Myth-Busting Espionage: Uncover how U-2 high-altitude photography exposed the truth behind the "bomber gap" and the "missile gap," providing critical intelligence that prevented nuclear catastrophe.
• Historic Missions & Tragedies: Relive the harrowing flights over Leningrad, the deep penetrations to Tyuratam, and the fateful shoot-down of Francis Gary Powers that shocked the world.
Written with strict historical discipline — no invented dialogue, no fabricated thoughts, and no narrative speculation — this book honors the aircraft, the visionaries who built her, and the lone pilots who flew to the edge of the world.
Perfect for fans of:
• Books: Skunk Works (Ben R. Rich), The Spy and the Traitor (Ben Macintyre), Area 51 (Annie Jacobsen), Command and Control (Eric Schlosser), and The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe)
• Movies & Shows: Bridge of Spies, Thirteen Days, The Americans, For All Mankind, and HBO’s Chernobyl.
Step into the cockpit at 70,000 feet. Scroll up and click "Buy Now" to read the untold story of aviation's most dangerous mission.
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