Indeed, the renown publisher Geca Kon rejected the publication as it was too traumatic, with the logic that it is better to forget.
I think the experience of this retreat in 1915 also shaped the decision of Milan Nedić to accept to be the Serbian maréchal Pétain in Second World War.
Miloš Vojinović
This (The Sixth Day, by Rastko Petrović) may be a classic of Serbian WW1 literature, but OMG it’s hard work. His publisher refused to publish it because it’s too complicated and grim.