Sparta’s Second Attic War is the fourth volume of a series dedicated to the History of Classical Sparta, published in the ‘Yale Library of Military History’. After exploring in the previous volumes the Spartan regime, the Persian Wars, and the Pentecontaetia, this book covers the convoluted period from the Thirty Years’ Peace (446 BC) to the Battle of Mantinea (418 BC). As the title suggests, Rahe endeavours to examine motivations and military strategies during the Peloponnesian War from a Spartan viewpoint. Accordingly, the volume ends with the crucial battle at Mantinea, since “from the perspective of the Spartans, their victory… marked the end of an epoch and paved the way for a radical shift in their grand strategy” (p. xiv).