to answer the original question:why is Stalingrad better known ? Because1)the general public is always fascinated by "decisive" battles and the pub lic-not reading any book about strategy and tactics-is taking his knowledge from films and the films have as topics Gettysburg,Midway .....and not the blockade of the South by the US navy,nor the submarine war against the Japanese oil transports 2)a film about an encircled army is making big money:films about Bastogne,not about the battle of St.Vith,which was more important .etc