Marketing is why you prolly wont see it in the states.
BUT.....This is a issue that can be debated at length. So I will toss the first stone
Every story has two sides. The point should be made that the Americans and British did not want the convoy to sail until early winter. The route was well covered by land based air and there were significant German navel units in the area. In 1942, the British were very short of convoy escort units and needed them to protect their own life lines. The Soviets forced the issue and the convoy sailed. A side note here that is ignored by history is how close the USSR came to making a separate peace with Germany.
The convoy was originally escorted by the carriers HMS Victorious and USS Washington. But these could not be risked past the North Cape because of German air power. The escort which had four destroyers and 10 corvettes (armed trawlers) and five detached cruisers. The cruisers were not the big gun variety, but small fast sub hunters. When the Tripitz and Prinz Eugen sailed along with about 10 destroyers, the British ships were forced to flee. Common tactical practicality dictated this action. Then the Germans flew more than 200 sorties against the convoy also attacking with 4 U boats.
The blame here lies with the Soviet government. They demanded that the convoy sail against the advice of their allies, and the blame falls squarely upon their mismanagement of the Soviet military and conduct of the war.
PQ 18 was held until fall and was escorted by (IIRC) 50+ ships. Losses were also bad, 13 ships were sunk. PQ 19 sailed in December, when weather and season were poor for air operations, and had light losses. Had the Soviets not insisted on the sailing, PQ 17 would have been held until late November or early December.
To have asked escort ships to engage a battle wagon in the company of a very heavy cruiser is madness. To ask that the sacrifice be made in the absence of a specific immediate tactical need is stupid. Add in a 2+ to 1 superiority in destroyers, and you have to ask why the convoy ever sailed in the long days of summer. Had no bombs ever found their mark, the German surface units would have brushed aside the escorts and decimated the convoy.
This issue surfaces every decade or so, and has even been the basis of court actions. But the facts remain the same. The convoy should have never sailed. And a country the size of the USSR should have never been in the position of having to rely on imported material to stop the Germans. This is just one more example of how badly soviet communism failed to serve the Soviet people. And trying to lay the blame on the British is just more rewriting of history, which is nothing new for the Soviets.