diff --git a/src/main/java/com/bettercloud/vault/api/Logical.java b/src/main/java/com/bettercloud/vault/api/Logical.java
index 0fed2937..75a29063 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/bettercloud/vault/api/Logical.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/bettercloud/vault/api/Logical.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 public class Logical {
 
     private final VaultConfig config;
+    private static final int defaultSecretVersion = 0; //set as logical flag to read latest secrets of kv v1 and v2 without a given version number
 
     public Logical(final VaultConfig config) {
         this.config = config;
@@ -51,20 +52,36 @@ public Logical(final VaultConfig config) {
      * @throws VaultException If any errors occurs with the REST request (e.g. non-200 status code, invalid JSON payload, etc), and the maximum number of retries is exceeded.
      */
     public LogicalResponse read(final String path) throws VaultException {
+        return read(path, defaultSecretVersion);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>Basic read operation to retrieve a secret of specific version</p>
+     *
+     * @param path          The Vault key value from which to read
+     * @param secretVersion version number of key-value secret, set to 0 for kv version-1, set greater than 0 for kv version-2
+     * @return The response information returned from Vault
+     * @throws VaultException If any errors occurs with the REST request (e.g. non-200 status code, invalid JSON payload, etc), and the maximum number of retries is exceeded.
+     */
+    public LogicalResponse read(final String path, final int secretVersion) throws VaultException {
         final String version = getSecretEngineVersion(getPathSegments(path).get(0));
+        if (secretVersion > 0 && "1".equals(version)) {
+            throw new VaultException("Detected vault v1 which doesn't support kv v2 secret versioning, please enable KV Secrets Engine - Version 2 \n");
+        }
         final String adjustedPath = adjustPathForReadOrWrite(path);
+        final String url = getVersionedUrl(secretVersion, adjustedPath);
         int retryCount = 0;
         while (true) {
             try {
                 // Make an HTTP request to Vault
                 final RestResponse restResponse = new Rest()//NOPMD
-                                                            .url(config.getAddress() + "/v1/" + adjustedPath)
-                                                            .header("X-Vault-Token", config.getToken())
-                                                            .connectTimeoutSeconds(config.getOpenTimeout())
-                                                            .readTimeoutSeconds(config.getReadTimeout())
-                                                            .sslPemUTF8(config.getSslPemUTF8())
-                                                            .sslVerification(config.isSslVerify() != null ? config.isSslVerify() : null)
-                                                            .get();
+                        .url(url)
+                        .header("X-Vault-Token", config.getToken())
+                        .connectTimeoutSeconds(config.getOpenTimeout())
+                        .readTimeoutSeconds(config.getReadTimeout())
+                        .sslPemUTF8(config.getSslPemUTF8())
+                        .sslVerification(config.isSslVerify() != null ? config.isSslVerify() : null)
+                        .get();
 
                 // Validate response
                 if (restResponse.getStatus() != 200) {
@@ -93,6 +110,11 @@ public LogicalResponse read(final String path) throws VaultException {
         }
     }
 
+    private String getVersionedUrl(int secretVersion, String adjustedPath) {
+        return secretVersion > 0 ? String.format("%s/v1/%s?version=%d", config.getAddress(), adjustedPath, secretVersion) :
+                String.format("%s/v1/%s", config.getAddress(), adjustedPath);
+    }
+
     /**
      * <p>Basic operation to store secrets.  Multiple name value pairs can be stored under the same secret key.
      * E.g.:</p>
diff --git a/src/test-integration/java/com/bettercloud/vault/api/LogicalV2Tests.java b/src/test-integration/java/com/bettercloud/vault/api/LogicalV2Tests.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6b47685f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test-integration/java/com/bettercloud/vault/api/LogicalV2Tests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package com.bettercloud.vault.api;
+
+import com.bettercloud.vault.Vault;
+import com.bettercloud.vault.VaultConfig;
+import com.bettercloud.vault.VaultException;
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+/**
+ * Integration test to run on KV Secrets Engine - Version 2
+ * This test expects the vault is running with url http://localhost:8200 and enabled a token as "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" with read and write privilege.
+ */
+public class LogicalV2Tests {
+    private static final String address = "http://localhost:8200";
+    private static final String token = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
+    private static final boolean isVerifySsl = false;
+    private static Vault vault;
+
+    @BeforeClass
+    public static void setUp() throws VaultException {
+        VaultConfig vaultConfig = new VaultConfig().address(address)
+                .token(token).sslVerify(isVerifySsl).build();
+        vault = new Vault(vaultConfig);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testReadAndWrite() throws VaultException {
+        final String path = "secret/place";
+        final String key = "city";
+        final String value_1 = "Bangalore";
+        final String value_2 = "Denver";
+        vault.logical().write(path, new HashMap<String, String>() {{
+            put(key, value_1);
+        }});
+        Assert.assertEquals(value_1, vault.logical().read(path).getData().get(key));
+        Assert.assertEquals(value_1, vault.logical().read(path, 1).getData().get(key));
+        vault.logical().write(path, new HashMap<String, String>() {{
+            put(key, value_2);
+        }});
+        Assert.assertEquals(value_2, vault.logical().read(path, 2).getData().get(key));
+        Assert.assertEquals(value_1, vault.logical().read(path, 1).getData().get(key));
+        Assert.assertEquals(value_2, vault.logical().read(path).getData().get(key));
+        vault.logical().delete(path);
+    }
+}
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